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Photonics Research, Volume. 5, Issue 4, 346(2017)

High power and beam quality continuous-wave Nd:GdVO₄ laser in-band diode-pumped at 912 nm

Mohammad Nadimi, Tanant Waritanant, and Arkady Major^*

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 5V6, Canada

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Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: Apr. 24, 2017

Accepted: Jun. 3, 2017

Published Online: Oct. 10, 2018

The Author Email: Arkady Major (a.major@umanitoba.ca)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.5.000346

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