Highly efficient continuous-wave operation of a Nd:YAG rod laser that is side pumped by p-polarized diode laser bars

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 31, 2004, Pages 5855-5859

  Kandasamy, Ranganathan ^a   Raghavachari, Sundar ^a   Misra, Puskar ^a   Sthanu Nathan, T P ^a  

^a RAJA RAMANNA CENTRE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; LASER BEAMS; MIRRORS; PUMPING (LASER);

DIODE LASER BARS; DOPING CONCENTRATION; PUMP BEAMS; PUMPING EFFICIENCY;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 9144220264     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005855     Document Type: Article

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