Beam quality improvement by gain guiding effect in end-pumped Nd:YVO 4 laser amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 21060-21073

  Xiang, Zhen ^a   Wang, Dan ^a   Pan, Sunqiang ^a   Dong, Yantao ^a   Zhao, Zhigang ^a,b   Li, Tong ^a   Ge, Jianhong ^a   Liu, Chong ^a   Chen, Jun ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; NEODYMIUM;

END-PUMPED; FILLING FACTOR; GAIN GUIDING; GAIN SATURATION; INPUT POWER; KEY PARAMETERS; LASER AMPLIFIERS; LASER CRYSTALS; PUMP BEAMS; PUMP POWER; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; THEORETICAL MODELS; THEORETICAL RESULT;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 80053974985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.021060     Document Type: Article

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