Recent progresses in INNOSLAB lasers and their harmonic generation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7578, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Li, Daijun ^a   Fu, Shaojun ^a   Liu, Xiaomeng ^a   Shi, Peng ^a   Chen, Jun ^a   Shell, Alexander ^a   Qi, Bingsong ^a   Haas, Claus Rüdiger ^a   Wang, Jingxiong ^a   Du, Keming ^a  

^a EdgeWave GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE POWER; BEAM PROFILES; CIRCULAR BEAMS; CRYSTAL SHAPES; DIODE END-PUMPED; HIGH BEAM QUALITY; HIGH FLEXIBILITY; HIGH PEAK POWER; HIGH PULSE REPETITION RATE; INNOSLAB LASER; LBO CRYSTAL; ND: YAG; NEAR FIELDS; OPTIMAL COMBINATION; PEAK OUTPUT POWER; PEAK POWER; PULSE ENERGIES; PULSE LENGTH; Q-SWITCHED; RECENT PROGRESS; RECTANGULAR CROSS-SECTIONS; RESONATOR DESIGN; SECOND HARMONICS; SHORT PULSE DURATION; SLAB LASERS;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; NEODYMIUM; PULSE REPETITION RATE;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 77951743191     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.847309     Document Type: Conference Paper

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