Tunable diode-pumped and frequency-doubled Cr:LiSAF lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 5053-5057

  Vallée, Réal ^b   Snell, Kevin J ^a   Chandonnet, Alain ^a   Galarneau, Pierre ^a  

^a INO   (Canada)

^b CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Infrared laser; Second harmonic generation; Thermal fluorescence quenching

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001249209     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.005053     Document Type: Article

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