Broadly tunable high-power Yb:Lu2O3 thin disk laser with 80% slope efficiency

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 7075-7082

  Peters, Rigo ^a   Kränkel, Christian ^a   Petermann, Klaus ^a   Huber, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; LASER TUNING; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL FILTERS; PUMPING (LASER); WAVELENGTH;

BIREFRINGENT FILTERS; CRYSTAL PARAMETERS; OUTPUT POWER;

CHEMICAL LASERS;

EID: 34249737489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.007075     Document Type: Article

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