10% Yb3+-Lu2O3 ceramic laser with 74% efficiency

Optics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 576-578

  Sanghera, Jas ^a   Frantz, J ^a   Kim, Woohong ^a   Villalobos, Guillermo ^a   Baker, Colin ^a   Shaw, Brandon ^a   Sadowski, Bryan ^b   Hunt, Michael ^c   Miklos, Fritz ^b   Lutz, Austin ^a   Aggarwal, Ishwar ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GTEC Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC LASERS; LASER OSCILLATIONS; OUTPUT POWER; POWER-SCALING; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

CERAMIC MATERIALS; YTTERBIUM;

HOT PRESSING;

EID: 79952156446     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.000576     Document Type: Article

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