Steady-state thermo-optic model of a continuous-wave Raman laser

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1318-1325

  Bienfang, Joshua C ^a   Rudolph, Wolfgang ^a   Roos, Peter A ^b   Meng, Lei S ^b   Carlsten, John L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LENSES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

RAMAN LASERS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 0010002446     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.001318     Document Type: Article

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