Diode-pumped, continuous-wave Tm:YAIO3 laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 3352-3355

  Thevar, Thangavel ^a   Barnes, Norman P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; OPTICAL PUMPING; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; QUENCHING;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; LASER CRYSTAL; SELF-QUENCHING; TM:YAIO3 LASER;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 33745765639     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.003352     Document Type: Article

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