Solid-state lasers with joule-level pulse energies and kilowatt average powers for industrial applications

The work presented in this thesis is concerned with the development of commercial Nd:YAG laser systems for a number of specific industrial applications. Common to all of these applications is the need to scale toward joule-level pulse energies for adequate light-matter interaction. These application...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Poulter, Michael Jon
Published: University of Strathclyde 2011
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.665203