Determination of thermal focal length and pumping radius in gain medium in laser-diode-pumped Nd:YVO4 lasers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2145-2147

  Song, Feng ^a   Zhang, Chaobo ^a   Ding, Xin ^a   Xu, Jingjun ^a   Zhang, Guangyin ^a   Leigh, Matthew ^b   Peyghambarian, Nasser ^b  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM WAIST; FOCAL LENGTHS; GAIN MEDIUM; LASER-DIODE-PUMPED; OUTPUT POWER; THERMAL FOCAL LENGTH; THERMAL LENS; TRANSFORM-CIRCLE;

FOCUSING; LASER THEORY; PUMPS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 79958182386     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1506789     Document Type: Article

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