Photoconductivity measurements indicating a nonlinear loss mechanism in highly Yb-doped oxides

Advanced Solid-State Photonics, ASSP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hirt, Christian ^a   Fredrich Thornton, Susanne T ^a   Tellkamp, Friedjof ^a   Petermann, Klaus ^a   Huber, Guenter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY;

NONLINEAR LOSS; THIN-DISK LASERS; UP CONVERSION; YB-DOPED;

YTTERBIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 51349126843     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/assp.2008.mf1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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