Self-compensating amplifier design for cw and Q-switched high-power Nd:YAG lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2191-2196

  Roth, Michelle S ^a   Romano, Valerio ^a   Feurer, T ^a   Graf, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BEAM QUALITY; PUMP POWER DEPENDENT THERMAL LENS; SELF-ADAPTIVE COMPENSATION;

LASERS;

EID: 33645072743     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.002191     Document Type: Article

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