Pumping schemes for multi-kW thin disk lasers

Optics InfoBase Conference Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 78-84

  Erhard, S ^a   Karszewski, M ^a   Stewen, C ^a   Giesen, A ^a   Contag, K ^b   Voss, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b Forschungsgesellschaft fuer   (Germany)

^c Haas Laser GmbH Co KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

END-PUMPED SCHEMES; END-PUMPING; LASER CRYSTALS; PERFORMANCE; PUMPING SCHEMES; THIN-DISK LASERS;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 85134620060     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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