Visible solar-pumped lasers

Optical Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 111-115

  Lando, Mordechai ^a   Shimony, Yehoshua ^a   Benmair, Roth M J ^b   Abramovich, Dov ^b   Krupkin, Vladimir ^b   Yogev, Amnon ^b  

^a ROTEM INDUSTRIES LTD   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES; CAVITY RESONATORS; CRYSTALS; LASER TUNING; LIGHT MODULATORS; MIRRORS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; Q SWITCHING; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SOLAR ENERGY;

ACOUSTOOPTIC MODULATOR; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; VISIBLE SOLAR PUMPED LASERS;

OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS;

EID: 0033208112     PISSN: 09253467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-3467(99)00019-1     Document Type: Article

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