Improving the brightness of side pumped power amplifiers by using core doped ceramic rods

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 6687-6693

  Sträßer, Alexander ^a   Ostermeyer, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; DISTORTION (WAVES); DOPING (ADDITIVES); PUMPING (LASER); REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BEAM CLIPPING; DOUBLE PASS CONFIGURATIONS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; PHASE DISTORTION;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33746325121     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.006687     Document Type: Article

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