High Power thin disk Yb:YAG regenerative amplifier

Optics InfoBase Conference Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 319-324

  Müller, Daniel ^a   Erhard, Steffen ^a   Giesen, Adolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIODE AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSE REPETITION RATE; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

DIODE-PUMPED; ENERGY; HIGH POWER; PULSE LENGTH; PULSE STRETCHING; REGENERATIVER AMPLIFIERS; REPETITION RATE; THIN DISK; ULTRA-SHORT PULSE; YAG;

YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET;

EID: 80051678237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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