Frequency-doubled microchip lasers

Optical Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 217-233

  Sinclair, Bruce D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diode pumped laser; Laser resonator; Nonlinear optics; Second harmonic generation; Solid state laser

Indexed keywords

LASER RESONATORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

FREQUENCY DOUBLED MICROCHIP LASERS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0032759077     PISSN: 09253467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-3467(98)00045-7     Document Type: Article

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