Efficient and compact diode-side-pumped Nd:YLF laser operating at 1053nm with high beam quality

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Wetter, Niklaus Ursus ^a   Sousa, Eduardo Colombo ^a   Camargo, Fabiola De Almeida ^a   Ranieri, Izilda Marcia ^a   Baldochi, Sonia Lícia ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS ENERGÉTICAS E NUCLEARES   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Beam quality; Nd:YLF; Side pumping; Solid state lasers

Indexed keywords

BEAM QUALITY; FIBER LASERS; LASERS; NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POWER QUALITY; PUMPING (LASER); PUMPS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CAVITY DESIGNS; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; GAIN MEDIUMS; HIGH BEAM QUALITIES; MULTIMODE OPERATIONS; ND:YLF; ND:YLF LASERS; ONE PASSES; OUTPUT POWERS; PUMP POWERS; SIDE PUMPING; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 58149277491     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/10/10/104013     Document Type: Article

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