Multipass pumped Nd-based thin-disk lasers: Continuous-wave laser operation at 1.06 and 0.9 μm with intracavity frequency doubling

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 34, 2007, Pages 8256-8263

  Pavel, Nicolaie ^a   Lünstedt, Kai ^b   Petermann, Klaus ^b   Huber, Günter ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LASER   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; GEOMETRY; OPTICAL PUMPING; WAVELENGTH;

INTRACAVITY FREQUENCY DOUBLING; PUMPING WAVELENGTH;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 39049169703     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.008256     Document Type: Article

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