High-efficiency, high-power and low threshold Yb3+:YAG ceramic laser

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 23344-23349

  Pirri, Angela ^a   Alderighi, Daniele ^a   Toci, Guido ^a   Vannini, Matteo ^a  

^a IFAC CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; SOLID STATE LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

CONTINUOUS WAVES; DOPED CERAMICS; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; LASER WAVELENGTH; LOW THRESHOLDS; LOW-THRESHOLD LASERS; QUASI-CONTINUOUS WAVES; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

EFFICIENCY;

ARTICLE; CERAMICS; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; SOLID STATE LASER;

CERAMICS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE;

EID: 72049114481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.023344     Document Type: Article

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