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On thermal effects in solid state lasers: the case of ytterbium-doped materials

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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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This article is published in Progress in Quantum Electronics.The article was published on 2006-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 339 citations till now.

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Diagnosing water content in paper by terahertz radiation

TL;DR: A quantitative (calibrated) method for determining the moisture content in paper based on extinction and phase measurements in the lower THz range with a spatial resolution in the mm-range and scanning times below two minutes is demonstrated.
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On Yb:CaF2 and Yb:SrF2 : Review of spectroscopic and thermal properties and their impact on femtosecond and high power laser performance

TL;DR: In this paper, an overview of laser results with Yb-doped calcium fluoride and its isotype strontium fluoride is presented, including the potential of these crystals at room and cryogenic temperatures.
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Toward continuous-wave operation of organic semiconductor lasers.

TL;DR: This study provides evidence that the development of a continuous-wave organic semiconductor laser technology is possible via the engineering of the gain medium and the device architecture.
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Conduction of Heat in Solids

TL;DR: In this paper, a classic account describes the known exact solutions of problems of heat flow, with detailed discussion of all the most important boundary value problems, including boundary value maximization.
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Physical properties of crystals

John F. Nye
TL;DR: In this paper, the physical properties of crystals systematically in tensor notation are presented, presenting tensor properties in terms of their common mathematical basis and the thermodynamic relations between them.
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Solid-state laser engineering

TL;DR: In this article, the characteristics, design, construction and performance of solid-state lasers are discussed from an industrial perspective, focusing on engineering and practical considerations; phenomenological aspects using models are preferred to abstract mathematical derivations.
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Laser Beams and Resonators

H. Kogelnik, +1 more
- 01 Oct 1966 - 
TL;DR: This paper is a review of the theory-of laser beams and resonators and emphasis is placed on formulations and derivations which lead to basic understanding and on results which bear practical significance.
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Laser beams and resonators

TL;DR: This paper is a review of the theory of laser beams and resonators and emphasis is placed on formulations and derivations which lead to basic understanding and on results which bear practical significance.