On thermal effects in solid state lasers: the case of ytterbium-doped materials
TL;DR: A review of theoretical and experimental studies of thermal effects in solid-state lasers is presented, with a special focus on diode-pumped ytterbium-doped materials as mentioned in this paper.
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About: This article is published in Progress in Quantum Electronics. The article was published on 01 Jan 2006. and is currently open access.
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