Cryogenically cooled Ti:Sapphire amplifiers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6451, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Heritier, Jean Marc ^a   Fournier, Steve ^a   Germann, G J ^a   Resan, B ^a   Viselga, R ^a   Fry, A ^a  

^a Research and Development Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryogenic cooling; Laser amplifiers; Solid state lasers; Thermal lensing; Ti:Sapphire lasers; Ultrafast lasers

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENIC COOLING; LASER AMPLIFIERS; SAPPHIRE LASERS; THERMAL LENSING; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

BEAM QUALITY; COOLING; CRYOGENICS; REFRACTION; SAPPHIRE; SOLID STATE LASERS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL EXPANSION; TITANIUM;

PULSE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34248345593     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.707693     Document Type: Conference Paper

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