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Appl Opt
; 32(36): 7399-401, 1993 Dec 20.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-20861956
ABSTRACT
The dependence of the output-energy efficiency and thermal load of an Er:YAG laser on the spectrum of exciting flash-lamp light has been measured. In particular, the influence of the direct and crossrelaxation pumping process has been studied. For pump pulses of 400 µs cross-relaxation pumping processes provide four times the efficiency and 1.5 times less thermal load normalized to fixed output energy.