Properties of two-photon pumped cavity lasing in novel dye doped solid matrices

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 749-754

  He, Guang S ^a,b   Bhawalkar, Jayant D ^a,c,d   Zhao, Chanfeng ^a   Prasad, Paras N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; LASER BEAMS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EMISSION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PHOTONS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTING GLASS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

FREQUENCY UPCONVERSION LASING; LASER EXCITATION; SCANNING SPECTROPHOTOMETER; SEMICONDUCTOR CRYSTAL; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0030151906     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.492996     Document Type: Article

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