All-solid-state tunable DCM dye laser pumped by a diode-pumped Nd: YAG laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 579-583

  Hu, Wentao ^a   Ye, Hui ^a   Li, Chuangdong ^a   Jiang, Zhonghong ^a   Zhou, Fuzheng ^a  

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

Author keywords

Diode pumped solid state laser; Organically modified silicate; Tunable dye laser

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; LASER PULSES; MIRRORS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OSCILLATIONS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SILICATES; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

DIODE PUMPED SOLID STATE LASERS; LASER WAVELENGTH; ORGANICALLY MODIFIED SILICATE; PHOTODEGRADATION;

DYE LASERS;

EID: 0030836093     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.000579     Document Type: Article

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