Progress in the development of solid-state disk laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5332, Issue , 2004, Pages 235-243

  Vetrovec, John ^a   Shah, Rashmi ^a   Endo, Tom ^a   Koumvakalis, Andrea ^a   Masters, Kevin ^a   Wooster, William ^a   Widen, Kenneth ^a   Lassovsky, Steven ^a  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active mirror; Disk laser; Edge pumping; Optical quality; Solid state laser; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MIRRORS; DISK LASERS; EDGE PUMPING; OPTICAL QUALITY;

COOLANTS; COOLING; DISTORTION (WAVES); HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT FLUX; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MIRRORS; THERMAL LOAD; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; YTTERBIUM COMPOUNDS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 4344698669     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.529729     Document Type: Conference Paper

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