A single-element plane-wave solid-state laser rate equation model

South African Journal of Science

Volumn 104, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 389-393

  Bernhardi, E H ^a,b,d   Bollig, C ^a   Esser, M J D ^a   Forbes, A ^a,b   Botha, L R ^a   Jacobs, C ^a,c  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATION; LASER; MODEL VALIDATION; MODELING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PLANE; WAVE;

EID: 58149352966     PISSN: 00382353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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