45W CW TEM00 mode diode-side-pumped Nd:YAG rod laser with linearly polarized beam
- 1 January 2014
- conference paper
- Published by Optica Publishing Group
- p. JTh2A.82
Abstract
Using a commercial, diode-side pumped Nd:YAG rod laser module, we obtain more than 53% extraction efficiency in fundamental mode with respect to multimode operation in a fully polarized beam.Keywords
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