Double-pass fiber Raman laser-A powerful and widely tunable in the ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared fiber Raman laser for biomedical investigations

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1013-1018

  Ilev, Ilko K ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Waynant, Ronald W ^a   Kumagai, Hiroshi ^b,g,h,i   Midorikawa, Katsumi ^b,g,h,j  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^f IEEE

^g KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h RIKEN   (Japan)

ⁱ OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^j JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DOUBLE PASS LASER; FIBER RAMAN LASER; NONLINEAR CONVERTED LASER EMISSION; STOKES EMISSION; THRESHOLD GENERATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; LASER PULSES; LASER TUNING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL PUMPING; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); RAMAN SCATTERING;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0033336668     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.796324     Document Type: Article

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