Broadly tunable, mode-hop-tuned cw optical parametric oscillator based on periodically poled lithium niobate

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 33, 2001, Pages 6049-6055

  Bisson, Scott E ^a   Armstrong, Karla M ^a   Kulp, Thomas J ^a   Hartings, Matthew ^a,b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM NIOBATE; NEODYMIUM LASERS; SPECTROMETERS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTROMETERS;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0000962005     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.006049     Document Type: Article

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