Reduction of the time-to-full-brightness in solidstate lasers using intra-cavity adaptive optics

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 12057-12069

  Lubeigt, Walter ^a   Griffith, Mike ^b   Laycock, Leslie ^b   Burns, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b BAE SYSTEMS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

(010.1080) Adaptive optics; (140.3580) Lasers, solid state; (140.6810) Thermal effects

Indexed keywords

LUMINANCE; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SOLID STATE LASERS; YLF LASERS;

BIMORPH MIRRORS; FULL BRIGHTNESS; INTRACAVITIES; MECHANICAL TRANSLATION STAGES; ND : YAG LASERS; RE-CONFIGURATIONS; SINGLE ELEMENT; THERMALLY INDUCED DISTORTIONS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LASER; OPTICS; TEMPERATURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LASERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 67650567243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.012057     Document Type: Article

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