High power Er:YAG laser with radially-polarized Laguerre-Gaussian (LG 01) mode output

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 14526-14531

  Kim, J W ^a,b   MacKenzie, J I ^a   Hayes, J R ^a   Clarkson, W A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; EXCITED STATES; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LASER EXCITATION;

BEAM PROPAGATION FACTOR; CONTINUOUS WAVES; DIRECT EXCITATION; END PUMPED SOLID STATE LASERS; ER:YAG LASERS; FIRST ORDER; HIGH-POWER; INCIDENT PUMP POWER; LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN; LASER PERFORMANCE; POWER-SCALING; PUMP BEAMS; SIMPLE METHOD; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 79960486697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.014526     Document Type: Article

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