Self-Adaptive Compensation for the Thermal Lens in High-PowerLasers

Optics InfoBase Conference Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 688-692

  Graf, Thomas ^a   Wyss, Eduard ^a   Weber, Heinz P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON OPTICS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

% REDUCTIONS; ADAPTIVE COMPENSATION; DIODE PUMPED ND: YAG; LASER RODS; ND:YAG LASER; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POWER; THERMAL LENS;

YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET;

EID: 85134785506     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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