Measurement of the thermal lens of grazing-incidence diode-pumped Nd:YVO4 laser amplifier

Optics Communications

Volumn 265, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 306-313

  Amarande, Ştefan A ^a   Damzen, Michael J ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LASER   (Romania)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIODES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL RESONATORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DIOPTRIC POWERS; ENERGY TRANSFER UPCONVERSION; NONLINEAR HEATING; OPTICAL RESONATOR DESIGN;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33747147428     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2006.03.013     Document Type: Article

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