Powerful and tunable operation of a 1-2-kHz repetition-rate gain-switched Cr:forsterite laser and its frequency doubling

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 3285-3293

  Zhavoronkov, Nickolay ^a   Petrov, Valentin ^b   Noack, Frank ^b  

^a The Belarussian Japanese joint venture SOLAR TII   (Belarus)

^b MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

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EID: 0001567234     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.003285     Document Type: Article

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