Good beam quality from a diamond-cooled Er:YAG laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6216, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hogenboom, Daniel O ^a   Nguyen, Minh ^a   Chou, Hsian P ^a  

^a Textron Defense Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam quality; Diamond cooling; Er:YAG; Eye safe; Q switch efficiency; Up conversion

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); COOLING; DIAMONDS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); Q SWITCHING;

BEAM QUALITY; DIAMOND COOLING; ER:YAG; EYE-SAFE; HEAT FLOWS; PULSE ENERGY; Q SWITCH EFFICIENCY; UP CONVERSION;

LASERS;

EID: 33747354318     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.668994     Document Type: Conference Paper

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