{"title":"Thermal lensing in high power Yb:KYW laser","authors":"P. Loiko, S. Manjooran, A. Major","doi":"10.1109/PN.2017.8090582","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Thermal lensing was studied in an N<inf>g</inf>-cut monoclinic Yb:KY(WO4)2 (Yb:KYW) laser crystal under high-power diode pumping at ∼980 nm for the E || Nm and E || Np polarizations. It was shown that thermal lensing is strongly dependent on polarization and is anisotropic.","PeriodicalId":153736,"journal":{"name":"2017 Photonics North (PN)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2017 Photonics North (PN)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PN.2017.8090582","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Thermal lensing was studied in an Ng-cut monoclinic Yb:KY(WO4)2 (Yb:KYW) laser crystal under high-power diode pumping at ∼980 nm for the E || Nm and E || Np polarizations. It was shown that thermal lensing is strongly dependent on polarization and is anisotropic.