Temperature dependence of a diode-Pumped cryogenic er:YAG laser

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 7159-7169

  Ter Gabrielyan, Nikolay ^a   Dubinskii, Mark ^a   Newburgh, G Alex ^a   Michael, Arockiasamy ^a   Merkle, Larry D ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIODES; ERBIUM; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

ABSORPTION LINES; DIODE PUMPS; DIODE-PUMPED; ER:YAG LASERS; INCIDENT PUMP POWER; LASER PERFORMANCE; LIQUID NITROGEN TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

PUMPING (LASER);

ARTICLE; COLD; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLID STATE LASER; TEMPERATURE;

COLD TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 66549112020     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007159     Document Type: Article

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