Multiline, superbroadband and sun-color oscillation of a LiF:F2 - Color-center laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2515-2522

  Basiev, Tasoltan T ^a   Zverev, Petr G ^a   Fedorov, Vladimir V ^a   Mirov, Sergey B ^b  

^a PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Color center laser; Divergence; Fluorescence; Multifrequency oscillation; Second harmonic generation; Superbroadband laser

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003325870     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.002515     Document Type: Article

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