Trends in Solid-State Lasers

Kenneth L. Schepler

Compact size, high-energy storage, simple excitation schemes, and reliability make solid-state lasers a first choice for researchers and engineers, Ken Schepler provides an overview of solid-state lasers and discusses current trends in output power, cost reduction, and tuning.

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