Design and analysis on face-cooled disk faraday rotator for high average power lasers

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Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 613-617

  Yasuhara, R ^a   Yamanaka, M ^a   Norimatsu, T ^a   Izawa, Y ^a   Kawashima, T ^a   Ikegawa, T ^a   Matsumoto, O ^a   Sekine, T ^a   Kurita, T ^a   Kan, H ^a   Furukawa, H ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; FARADAY ROTATORS; GAS-COOLED; HIGH AVERAGE POWER LASERS; THERMAL DISTORTIONS;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

EID: 84899130437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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