Thin Disk Laser Operation and Spectroscopic Characterization of Yb-doped Sesquioxides and Potassium Tungstates

Optics InfoBase Conference Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 625-631

  Larionov, M ^a   Gao, J ^a   Erhard, S ^a   Giesen, A ^a   Contag, K ^b   Peters, V ^c   Mix, E ^c   Fornasiero, L ^c   Petermann, K ^c   Huber, G ^c   Aus der Au, J ^d   Spuhler G J ^d   Brunner, F ^d   Paschotta, R ^d   Keller, U ^d   Lagatsky, A A ^e   Abdolvand, A ^e   Kuleshov, N V ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b FGSW Forschungsgesellschaft für Strahlwerkzeuge mbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e BELARUSIAN NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS; YTTERBIUM COMPOUNDS;

CW OPERATION; HIGH-POWER CW; LASER CONFIGURATION; LASER OPERATIONS; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; OUTPUT POWER; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION; THIN-DISK LASERS; YB-DOPED;

POTASSIUM;

EID: 84856437376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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