Cryogenically cooled solid-state lasers: Recent developments and future prospects

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fan, T Y ^a   Ripin, D J ^a   Hybl, J D ^a   Gopinath, J T ^a   Goyal, A K ^a   Rand, D A ^a   Augst, S J ^a   Ochoa, J R ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES; FUTURE PROSPECTS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH-POWER OPERATION; LASER ARCHITECTURE; POWER SCALABILITY; SOLID STATE LASER MATERIALS;

ELECTRON OPTICS; LASERS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 70449601947     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5192753     Document Type: Conference Paper

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