Effect of diode wavelength broadening in a diode end-pumped solid-state amplifier

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 2709-2716

  Bourdet, Gilbert L ^a   Casagrande, Olivier ^b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b CEA CESTA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL PUMPING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; YTTERBIUM;

LASER DESIGN; PULSED PUMPING; PUMP ENERGY; SPECTRAL BROADENING;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 34250751822     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.002709     Document Type: Article

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