A 1-kW radially polarized thin-disk laser

CLEO/Europe - EQEC 2009 - European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the European Quantum Electronics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ahmed, M Abdou ^a   Vogel, M M ^a   Voss, A ^a   Graf, Th ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

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EID: 70449561617     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5196606     Document Type: Conference Paper

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