Influence of the Yb-doping concentration on the efficiency of Lu2O3 thin disk lasers

Advanced Solid-State Photonics, ASSP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Peters, Rigo ^a   Kränkel, Christian ^a   Petermann, Klaus ^a   Huber, Guenter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DIODE-PUMPING; HIGH POWER; OUTPUT POWER; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; THIN-DISK LASERS; YB-DOPING;

YTTERBIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84884337764     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/assp.2008.mf2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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