Direct production of high-power radially- Polarized output from a side-pumped Nd:YVO4 bounce amplifier using a photonic crystal mirror

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 10762-10768

  Hamazaki, Junichi ^a   Kawamoto, Akira ^b   Morita, Ryuji ^a   Omatsu, Takashige ^b,c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIRRORS; POLARIZATION;

CAVITY CONFIGURATION; DIRECT PRODUCTION; OUTPUT COUPLERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL MIRROR; POLARIZATION DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIALLY POLARIZED; RADIALLY POLARIZED BEAM; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 47249135458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.010762     Document Type: Article

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