End-pumped Nd:YAG laser with a longitudinal hyperbolic dopant concentration profile

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 20106-20116

  Wilhelm, Ralf ^a   Freiburg, Denis ^a   Frede, Maik ^a   Kracht, Dietmar ^a  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONDUCTION; LASER EXCITATION; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

ABSORPTION MEASUREMENTS; DOPANT CONCENTRATIONS; HEAT CONDUCTION EQUATIONS; HEAT FRACTION; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; ND : YAG LASERS; OPTICAL-TO-OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 56749102993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020106     Document Type: Article

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