Different cooling configurations for a high average power longitudinally diode-pumped Yb:YAG amplifier

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 6205-6211

  Yu, Haiwu ^a,b   Bourdet, Gilbert ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b RESEARCH CENTER OF LASER FUSION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); COOLING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

CRYSTAL BENDING; DIODE-PUMPED AMPLIFIER CRYSTALS; OPTICAL PHASE DISTORTION; THERMO-DEFORMATION;

DIODE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33749833991     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.006205     Document Type: Article

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