Determination of the thermal loading in laser-diode-pumped erbium-ytterbium-codoped phosphate glass microchip laser

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2327-2332

  Song, Feng ^a   Liu, Shujing ^a   Wu, Zhaohui ^a   Cai, Hong ^a   Zhang, Xin ^a   Teng, Li ^a   Tian, Jianguo ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER RESONATORS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; THERMAL LOAD;

FRACTIONAL THERMAL LOADING; MICROCHIP LASER;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 36049016868     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.24.002327     Document Type: Article

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