Radially polarized high-power lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7131, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ahmed, Marwan Abdoua ^a   Voß, Andreas ^a   Vogel, Moritz M ^a   Austerschulte, Armin ^a   Schulzb, Joachim ^b   Metschc, Volker ^b   Moserd, Tobias ^c   Graf, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b TRUMPF LASER UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH   (Germany)

^c LASAG AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

High power lasers; Llaser metal cutting; Percussion drilling; Radial polarization; Resonant waveguide gratings

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MULTILAYERS; DISC LASER; GRATING MIRRORS; LLASER METAL CUTTING; MATERIAL PROCESSING; PERCUSSION DRILLING; RADIAL POLARIZATION; RESONANT GRATINGS; RESONANT WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; THIN-DISK LASERS; YAG;

AERODYNAMICS; BORING; CHEMICAL LASERS; CUTTING TOOLS; FLOW OF GASES; INSTRUMENTS; LASER RESONATORS; LASERS; METAL CUTTING; MULTILAYERS; NATURAL GAS WELL DRILLING; OPTICAL TESTING; PERCUSSION WELDING; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; POLARIZATION; RESONATORS; SOLID STATE LASERS; WAVEGUIDES; YTTERBIUM;

MIRRORS;

EID: 69849083072     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.816818     Document Type: Conference Paper

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