Scaling laws of disk lasers

Optical Materials

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 754-759

  Kouznetsov, Dmitrii ^a   Bisson, Jean François ^a   Ueda, Kenichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; DISK LASERS; OUTPUT POWER; POWER-SCALING; ROUND TRIP; SIMPLE MODELING; UNDOPED LAYERS;

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 60449093587     PISSN: 09253467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2008.03.017     Document Type: Article

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