Specific heat loading in Nd:glass lasers
Description:
The specific thermal load parameter, chi, for xenon flashlamp-pumped Nd:glass gain media is written as a function of neodymium concentration, pump pulse duration, and energy extraction efficiency. The currently available data on radiative and nonradiative decay probabilities of several commercial Nd:glasses are used to calculate and graph specific thermal load parameter values. By factoring these results into performance scaling relationships for zig-zag and disk lasers, specific Nd:glasses can…
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Date:
August 7, 1985
Creator:
Krupke, W. F.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department