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New compact pump geometry for thin disk lasers with a tilted optical long-pass filter

Ewers et al., 2019

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8674458923428619370
Author
Ewers B
Lorbeer R
Fischer A
Speiser J
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Solid State Lasers XXVIII: Technology and Devices

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Due to the low absorption of pump light in a thin disk laser, the pump light has to be redirected multiple times onto the active medium in order to achieve high pumping efficiency. Therefore, the pump optics in current systems require a large volume compared to …
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