Power scaling of a pico-second Nd:YVO4 master-oscillator power amplifier with a phaseconjugate mirror

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 10657-10662

  Nawata, K ^a   Ojima, Y ^a   Okida, M ^b   Ogawa, T ^a   Omatsu, T ^c  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MIRRORS; OSCILLISTORS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

BEAM PROPAGATION ANALYSIS; MASTER OSCILLATOR POWER AMPLIFIER SYSTEMS; PICOSECONDS; POWER SCALING;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33750693694     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.010657     Document Type: Article

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