High power volume bragg laser bar for efficient pumping of alkali (Rb) lasers

Advanced Solid-State Photonics, ASSP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Gourevitch, A ^a   Venus, G ^a   Smirnov, V ^b   Glebov, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b OptiGrate Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTERNAL CAVITY; HIGH POWER; LASER BAR; LASER DIODE BARS; OUTPUT POWER; RB VAPORS; SPECTRAL LINE WIDTH; VOLUME BRAGG GRATINGS;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 84884316122     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/assp.2008.mc12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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