Volume Bragg grating improves characteristics of resonantly diode pumped Er:YAG 1.65-μm DPSSL

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6451, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Kudryashov, Igor ^a   Garbuzov, Dmitri ^a   Dubinskii, Mark ^b  

^a PRINCETON LIGHTWAVE INC   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diode pumped; Er:YAG; Solid state lasers; Volumetric bragg grating

Indexed keywords

SLOPE EFFICIENCY; SPECTRAL NARROWING; VOLUMETRIC BRAGG GRATINGS;

ABSORPTION; BRAGG GRATINGS; DIODES; ERBIUM; PUMPING (LASER); YTTRIUM COMPOUNDS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 34248389002     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.699154     Document Type: Conference Paper

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