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29 June 2001 Intrinsic oscillation threshold of 3-μm erbium lasers
Serban Georgescu, Claudiu Hapenciuc, Cristian Florea
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Proceedings Volume 4430, ROMOPTO 2000: Sixth Conference on Optics; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.432888
Event: ROMOPTO 2000: Sixth Conference on Optics, 2000, Bucharest, Romania
Abstract
Mathematical modeling is used to estimate the contribution of the intrinsic oscillation threshold (absence of any lsses) to the threshold of 3-micrometers erbium lasers. For the Er:YAG laser, a strong concentration dependence of this contribution is found.
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Serban Georgescu, Claudiu Hapenciuc, and Cristian Florea "Intrinsic oscillation threshold of 3-μm erbium lasers", Proc. SPIE 4430, ROMOPTO 2000: Sixth Conference on Optics, (29 June 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.432888
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KEYWORDS
Erbium

Upconversion

Laser damage threshold

Er:YAG lasers

Erbium lasers

Energy transfer

Crystals

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