High Brightness, End-Pumped, Conduction Cooled Nd:YAG Zig-Zag Slab Laser Architecture

Optics InfoBase Conference Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 41-46

  Palese, Stephen ^a   Harkenrider, Joseph ^a   Long, William ^a   Chui, Frank ^a   Hoffmaster, David ^a   Burt, William ^a   Injeyan, Hagop ^a   Conway, George ^b   Truong, Glen ^b   Tapos, Francis ^b  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b JDS UNIPHASE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PASSIVE MODE LOCKING; PHASE MATCHING; POWER AMPLIFIERS; PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

CONDUCTION COOLED; END-PUMPED; HIGH BRIGHTNESS; LASER ARCHITECTURE; MASTER OSCILLATOR POWER AMPLIFIERS; ND: YAG; OSCILLATOR CONFIGURATIONS; POWER OSCILLATOR; ZIG-ZAG; ZIGZAG SLAB LASERS;

YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET;

EID: 85134776118     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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