Combined guiding effect in the end-pumped laser resonator

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6883-6902

  Yan, Xingpeng ^a   Liu, Qiang ^a   Wang, Dongsheng ^a   Gong, Mali ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; LASER RESONATORS; LASER THEORY; NEODYMIUM; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONATORS;

END-PUMPED; END-PUMPED LASERS; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; GAIN GUIDING; GAIN MEDIUM; GAIN SATURATION; GEOMETRIC DESIGN; GUIDING EFFECT; HEAT DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; HIGH-POWER; INDUCED REFRACTIVE INDEX; NONLINEAR WAVE EQUATION; PUMP ABSORPTION; SPATIAL HOLE BURNING; SPLIT STEP FOURIER METHOD; TEM; THEORETICAL MODELS; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; TRANSVERSE MODE; WAVE THEORY;

PUMPING (LASER);

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; SOLID STATE LASER; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 79953194507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.006883     Document Type: Article

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