Efficient high-power green beam generation by use of an intracavity frequency-doubled laser-diode-pumped Q-switched Nd:YAG laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 551-554

  Konno, Susumu ^a   Yasui, Koji ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; HARMONIC GENERATION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

DIODE SIDE PUMPING; HIGH POWER GREEN BEAM GENERATION; INTRACAVITY FREQUENCY DOUBLING;

Q SWITCHED LASERS;

EID: 0031646750     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.000551     Document Type: Article

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