Abstract
Theory of cw thermal loading in saturable absorbers with temperature-dependent lifetime is presented. Excellent agreement with experimental data is obtained with use of chromium-doped YAG saturable absorbers.
© 1997 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
Alphan Sennaroglu and Baris Pekerten
CS17 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1998
Alphan Sennaroglu, Clifford R. Pollock, and Howard Nathel
WZ.3 OSA Annual Meeting (FIO) 1993
Dalwoo Kim and Wentao Hu
FB5 Solid State Lasers: Materials and Applications (SSLMA) 1997