Up-conversion to the conduction band in highly doped Yb:YAG and Yb:Y 2O3 and its effect on thin-disk lasers

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007, CLEO 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Fredrich Thornton, Susanne T ^a,b   Bisson, Jean Francois ^a   Kouznetsov, Dmitrii ^a   Ueda, Ken Ichi ^a   Petermann, Klaus ^b   Huber, Guenter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION SPECTRUMS; HIGH INTENSITY; THIN-DISK LASERS; UP-CONVERSION; YAG;

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

YTTERBIUM;

EID: 82955201749     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452400     Document Type: Conference Paper

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3. S. T. Fredrich, D. Fagundes-Peters, V. Peters, V. Laguta, K. Petermann and G. Huber, "Investigation of quenching processes in Yb:YAG for thin disk laser applications", 10th Europhysical Conference on Defects in Insulating Materials, Milano 10-14 July 2006.