Compact diode stack end pumped Nd:YAG amplifier using core doped ceramics

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 811-816

  Denis, Thomas ^a   Hahn, Sven ^a   Mebben, Sandra ^a   Wilhelm, Ralf ^a   Kolleck, Christian ^a,b   Neumann, Jörg ^a,b   Kracht, Dietmar ^a,b  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR QUANTUM ENGINEERING AND SPACE TIME RESEARCH QUEST   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIODES; PUMPING (LASER); SOLID STATE LASERS;

COMPACT AMPLIFIERS; DOPED CERAMICS; GOOD BEAM QUALITY; NEODYMIUM DOPED; NON-IMAGING OPTICS; PARASITIC EFFECT; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; PULSE ENERGIES;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 76749116720     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.000811     Document Type: Article

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