Design and characterization of a diode-pumped, single longitudinal and transverse mode, intracavity-doubled cw Nd: YAG laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 597-601

  Agnesi, A ^a   Dell'acqua S ^a   Reali, G C ^a   Gobbi, P G ^b   Ragazzi, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

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EID: 0001532478     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.000597     Document Type: Article

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