Locking the cavity of a pulsed periodically poled lithium niobate optical parametric oscillator to the wavelength of a continuous-wave injection seeder by an "intensity-dip" method

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 3203-3213

  He, Y ^a   Baxter, G W ^a,b   Orr, B J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER RESONATORS; LASER TUNING; LITHIUM NIOBATE; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

INJECTION SEEDING;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0032621812     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1149895     Document Type: Article

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