Widely tunable, near- to mid-infrared femtosecond and picosecond optical parametric oscillators using periodically poled LiNbO3 and RbTiOAsO4

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 238-248

  Reid, D T ^b   Kennedy, G T ^b   Miller, Alan ^a,b   Sibbett, Wilson ^b   Ebrahimzadeh, Majid ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mode locked lasers; Optical frequency conversion; Optical materials; Optical parametric oscillators; Ultrafast optics

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

ULTRAFAST OPTICS;

PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0032025977     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.686729     Document Type: Article

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