Temperature dependencies of stimulated emission cross section for Nd-doped solid-state laser materials

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1076-1087

  Sato, Yoichi ^a   Taira, Takunori ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION CROSS SECTION; ND-DOPED; ND:GDVO; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; POPULATION INVERSIONS; SOLID STATE LASER MATERIALS; STIMULATED EMISSION CROSS SECTION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCIES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TEMPERATURE RANGE;

SOLID STATE LASERS; STIMULATED EMISSION;

NEODYMIUM;

EID: 84866415856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.001076     Document Type: Article

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