Spectroscopic characterization of various Yb3+ doped laser materials at cryogenic temperatures for the development of high energy class diode pumped solid state lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8780, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Jambunathan, Venkatesan ^a   Koerner, Joerg ^b   Sikocinski, Pawel ^a   Divoky, Martin ^a   Sawicka, Magdalena ^a   Lucianetti, Antonio ^a   Hein, Joachim ^b   Mocek, Tomas ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absorption; CaF2; Cross section; Cryogenic temperature; Emission; FP15 glass; Gain; LuAG; YAG; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

CAF2; CROSS-SECTION; CRYOGENIC TEMPERATURES; GAIN; LUAG; YAG;

ABSORPTION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; GLASS; NEUTRON EMISSION; SOLID STATE LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 84880895124     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2016915     Document Type: Conference Paper

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