Revising the formula of thermal focal length in a side-pumped laser rod by experiments

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 5237-5240

  Wang, Xiaobo ^a   Xu, Xiaojun ^a   Li, Xiao ^a   Lu, Qisheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PUMPING (LASER); REFRACTIVE INDEX; THERMAL STRESS;

THERMAL FOCAL LENGTH; THERMAL LENSING;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 35448936393     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.005237     Document Type: Article

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