Abstract
Since they exhibit a low heat generation. Ytterbium-doped materials turned out to be serious competitors of Neodymium-doped materials for high power diode-pumped lasers.1 Because there is no excited-state absorption and upconversion processes, the only heat source is commonly admitted to be the quantum defect.2
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