High-power diode-end-pumped Tm:LiLuF4 slab lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 14895-14901

  Cheng, Xiaojin ^a   Zhang, Shuaiyi ^a   Xu, Jianqiu ^a   Peng, Haiyan ^a   Hang, Yin ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DIODES; POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; Q SWITCHED LASERS;

ABSORBED PUMP POWER; COLLIMATED LASER DIODE; CONTINUOUS WAVE; CONTINUOUS WAVES; DIODE END-PUMPED; DOPING CONCENTRATION; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; Q-SWITCHED OPERATION;

PUMPING (LASER);

FLUORINE; LITHIUM; LUTETIUM; THULIUM;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; OSCILLOMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

ABSORPTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORINE; LASERS; LITHIUM; LUTETIUM; MATERIALS TESTING; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OSCILLOMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; THULIUM;

EID: 69049098934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014895     Document Type: Article

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