Optical waveguides in laser crystals

Comptes Rendus Physique

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 123-137

  Pollnau, Markus ^a,b   Romanyuk, Yaroslav E ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Laser crystals; Optical waveguides

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847731006     PISSN: 16310705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crhy.2006.04.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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