High-power radially polarized Yb:YAG thin-disk laser with high efficiency

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 5093-5104

  Abdou Ahmed, Marwan ^a   Haefner, Matthias ^a   Vogel, Moritz ^a   Pruss, Christof ^a   Voss, Andreas ^a   Osten, Wolfgang ^a   Graf, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WAVEGUIDES; YTTERBIUM;

GRATING MIRRORS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH-POWER; INTRACAVITIES; LASER CAVITY; OUTPUT POWER; RADIALLY POLARIZED BEAM; SCANNING BEAM INTERFERENCE LITHOGRAPHIES; THIN-DISK LASERS; WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; YAG;

MIRRORS;

EID: 79952597925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.005093     Document Type: Article

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