213 W average power of 2.4 GW pulsed thermally controlled Nd:glass zigzag slab laser with a stimulated Brillouin scattering mirror

Optics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 1711-1713

  Yasuhara, Ryo ^a   Kawashima, Toshiyuki ^a   Sekine, Takashi ^a   Kurita, Takashi ^a   Ikegawa, Tadashi ^a   Matsumoto, Osamu ^a   Miyamoto, Masahiro ^a   Kan, Hirofumi ^a   Yoshida, Hidetsugu ^a   Kawanaka, Junji ^b   Nakatsuka, Masahiro ^b   Miyanaga, Noriaki ^b   Izawa, Yasukazu ^b   Kanabe, Tadashi ^c  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; GLASS; GLASS LASERS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSED LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

CONJUGATED SYSTEMS; DIFFRACTION-LIMITED BEAMS; HIGH AVERAGE POWER; HIGH PULSE ENERGY; LASER AMPLIFIERS; ND: GLASS LASERS; OPTICAL-TO-OPTICAL CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; ZIG-ZAG SLAB LASERS;

LASER MIRRORS;

EID: 49349113510     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.33.001711     Document Type: Article

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