Enhancement of the mode area and modal discrimination of microchip lasers using angularly selective mirrors

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 628-637

  Bisson, Jean Francois ^a   Lyndin, Nikolay ^b   Ueda, Ken Ichi ^a   Parriaux, Olivier ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c Hubert Curien Laboratory   (France)

Author keywords

Diffraction gratings; Microchip lasers; Power scaling; Solid state lasers

Indexed keywords

ABCD MATRIXES; ACTIVE MATERIALS; ANGULAR RANGES; BATCH PROCESS; COMPACT DEVICES; EIGENVALUE PROBLEMS; GAUSSIAN; MASS PRODUCTIONS; MICROCHIP LASERS; MODAL DISCRIMINATIONS; MODE AREAS; NEW APPLICATIONS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDES; OSCILLATION THRESHOLDS; OUTPUT COUPLERS; OUTPUT COUPLINGS; PARAXIAL OPTICS; POWER SCALING; REFLECTED BEAMS; RESONANT GRATINGS; THERMAL FRACTURES; TRANSVERSE MODES;

AMPLIFICATION; ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; BATCH DATA PROCESSING; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LASERS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LIGHT; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; SOLID STATE LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

MIRRORS;

EID: 65349154682     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2008.921381     Document Type: Article

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