Rubidium and potassium alkali lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7196, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Zweiback, J ^a   Krupke, B ^b  

^a GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^b WFK Lasers LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Diode pumped alkali lasers; DPAL; Narrowed diodes; Rubidium

Indexed keywords

ALKALI LASERS; DIODE PUMPED ALKALI LASERS; DIODE STACKS; DIODE-PUMPED; DPAL; NARROWED DIODES; OUTPUT POWER; VOLUME BRAGG GRATINGS;

DIODES; POTASSIUM; RUBIDIUM;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 65649141575     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.807850     Document Type: Conference Paper

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