Fifteen years of work on thin-disk lasers: Results and scaling laws

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 598-609

  Giesen, Adolf ^a   Speiser, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Laser amplifiers; Power lasers; Pulsed lasers; Thin disk laser; Yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) lasers

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; PHOTONS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

LASER AMPLIFIERS; POWER LASERS; PULSED LASERS; THIN-DISK LASERS; YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET (YAG) LASERS;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 34250766246     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.897180     Document Type: Article

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