Tunable picosecond blue and ultraviolet pulses from a diode-pumped laser system seeded sby a gain-switched laser diode

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 4876-4880

  Balembois, François ^a   Gaignet, Mickaël ^a   Georges, Patrick ^a   Brun, Alain ^a   Stelmakh, Nikolaï ^a   Lourtioz, Jean Michel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CRYSTALS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT EMISSION; PERFORMANCE; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; PUMPING (LASER); SPECTROSCOPY;

BLUE PULSE; DIODE PUMPED LASER SYSTEM; ELECTRICAL TO OPTICAL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FREQUENCY CONVERSION; GAIN SWITCHED LASER DIODE; ULTRAVIOLET PULSE;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0032115743     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.004876     Document Type: Article

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