Surface loss limit of the power scaling of a thin-disk laser

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1074-1082

  Kouznetsov, Dmitrii ^a   Bisson, Jean François ^a   Dong, Jun ^a   Ueda, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

OUTPUT POWER; OVERHEATING; POWER SCALING; SURFACE LOSS LIMIT; THERMAL FRACTURE; THIN-DISK LASER;

LASERS;

EID: 33745876527     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.001074     Document Type: Article

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