Degradation of laser performance in Yb-doped oxide thin-disk lasers at high inversion densities

Optics InfoBase Conference Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fredrich Thornton, Susanne T ^a   Peters, Rigo ^a   Petermann, Klaus ^a   Huber, Guenter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET;

LASER PERFORMANCE; THIN-DISK LASERS; YB-DOPED;

YTTERBIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84893992851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/assp.2009.tub18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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