Three-dimensional computer model for simulating realistic solid-state lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 5687-5697

  Shu, Hong ^a   Bass, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; GRADIENT METHODS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

BEAM PROPAGATION; DIMENSIONAL LASER SYSTEMS; PUMP ABSORPTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER MODELS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 35948951996     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.005687     Document Type: Article

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