Current status and development trends of disk laser technology

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6871, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Killi, Alexander ^a   Zawischa, Ivo ^a   Sutter, Dirk ^a   Kleinbauer, Jochen ^a   Schad, Sven ^a   Neuhaus, Jörg ^a   Schmitz, Christian ^a  

^a TRUMPF LASER UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

High power lasers; Lasers for material processing; Pulsed lasers; Thin disk laser; Ultrafast lasers; YAG

Indexed keywords

BEAM QUALITY; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LASER APPLICATIONS; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

MATERIAL PROCESSING; THIN DISK LASERS;

HIGH POWER LASERS;

EID: 42949162942     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.761664     Document Type: Conference Paper

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