Continuous-wave laser characteristics of a Nd3+:LaB 3O6 cleavage microchip and the influence of thermal effects

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 32, 2006, Pages 8338-8345

  Chen, Yujin ^a,b   Gong, Xinghong ^a   Lin, Yanfu ^a   Tan, Qiguang ^a   Luo, Zundu ^a   Huang, Yidong ^a  

^a FUJIAN INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH ON THE STRUCTURE OF MATTER   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEODYMIUM COMPOUNDS; PUMPING (LASER); RESONATORS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CHOPPERS; MICROCHIPS; OUTPUT COUPLER TRANSMISSION; SLOPE EFFICIENCY;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 33845941175     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.008338     Document Type: Article

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