Upconversion laser processes

Progress in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 271-358

  Scheps, Richard ^a  

^a Naval Command   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETIC THEORY; LASER RESONATORS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHING; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS;

ENERGY TRANSFER UPCONVERSION; ION KINETICS MODEL; LASER EMISSION; LASER OSCILLATION; OPTICAL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PHOTON AVALANCHE UPCONVERSION; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION UPCONVERSION; UPCONVERSION LASER PROCESSES;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0030408226     PISSN: 00796727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0079-6727(95)00007-0     Document Type: Review

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