High efficiency room temperature laser emission in heavily doped Yb:YLF

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 7994-8002

  Vannini, Matteo ^a   Toci, Guido ^a   Alderighi, Daniele ^a   Parisi, Daniela ^b   Cornacchia, Francesco ^b   Tonelli, Mauro ^b  

^a IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); LASER TUNING; LIGHT EMISSION; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

DUTY FACTOR; LASER DIODE ARRAYS; SLOPE EFFICIENCY;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 34250830835     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.007994     Document Type: Article

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