Comparison of thermal lensing effects between single-end and double-end diffusion-bonded Nd:YVO4 crystals for4F 3/2→4I11/2 and4F 3/2→4I13/2 transitions

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 21155-21160

  Chang, Y T ^a   Huang, Y P ^a   Su, K W ^a   Chen, Y F ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; PUMPING (LASER);

CONTINUOUS WAVE; DIODE END-PUMPED; EFFECTIVE FOCAL LENGTHS; ND : YVO; SINGLE ENDS; THERMAL LENS; THERMAL LENSING EFFECT;

DIFFUSION;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; LENSES; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 57349092935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021155     Document Type: Article

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