Diode-pumped Tm:YAG ceramic laser

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2434-2437

  Zhang, Wen Xin ^a,b   Pan, Yu Bai ^a   Zhou, Jun ^a,b   Liu, Wen Bin ^a   Li, Jiang ^a   Jiang, Ben Xue ^a   Cheng, Xiao Jin ^c   Xu, Jian Qiu ^c  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; AVERAGE GRAIN SIZE; CERAMIC LASERS; DIODE-PUMPED; END-PUMPED; IN-LINE; LASER DIODES; LASER PERFORMANCE; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; SECONDARY PHASE; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; VACUUM SINTERING; YAG;

CERAMIC MATERIALS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SINTERING;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 70349558264     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: 15512916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-2916.2009.03220.x     Document Type: Article

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