Efficient 671-nm pump source by intracavity doubling of a diode-pumped Nd:YVO4 laser

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1078-1082

  Agnesi, Antonio ^a   Guandalini, Annalisa ^a   Reali, Giancarlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER TUNING; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

INTERCAVITY DOUBLING;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0013052092     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.001078     Document Type: Article

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