Highly doped Yb:YAG thin-disk lasers: A comparison between single crystal and ceramic active media.

Advanced Solid-State Photonics, ASSP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Fredrich Thornton, Susanne T ^a,b   Hirt, Christian ^a   Tellkamp, Friedjof ^a   Petermann, Klaus ^a   Huber, Guenter ^a   Ueda, Ken ichi ^b   Yagi, Hideki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^c KONOSHIMA CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MEDIA; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; SPECTROSCOPIC PROPERTY; THIN-DISK LASERS;

CERAMIC MATERIALS; YTTERBIUM;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 84884307791     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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