Analysis on the temperature distribution and thermal effects in corner-pumped slab lasers

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-48

  Lu, Fuyuan ^c   Gong, Mali ^a   Xue, Haizhong ^b   Liu, Qiang ^a   Gong, Wupeng ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Slab laser; Solid state laser; Thermal effects; Yb:YAG

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LASER OPTICS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; YTTERBIUM;

SLAB LASER; SOLID-STATE LASER; YB:YAG/YAG COMPOSITE SLABS;

LASER BEAM EFFECTS;

EID: 33748753578     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2006.04.007     Document Type: Article

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