Automatic laser beam characterization of monolithic Nd: YAG nonplanar ring lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 32, 2008, Pages 6022-6032

  Kwee, Patrick ^a   Willke, Benno ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LASER BEAMS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

BEAM CHARACTERIZATION; LASER BEAM CHARACTERIZATION; LONG-TERM BEHAVIOR; NONPLANAR RING LASER; OPTICAL EXPERIMENTS; SINGLE FREQUENCY; SOLID-STATE RING LASERS; SPATIAL BEAM QUALITY;

RING LASERS;

EID: 60649119452     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.006022     Document Type: Article

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