Highly efficient, variable pulse format, 770 nm source based on powerful seeded fibre amplifier and second-harmonic generation in periodically poled KTP

Electronics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 648-649

  Champert, P A ^a   Popov, S V ^a   Taylor, J R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

POTASSIUM TITANYL PHOSPHATE;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0033879931     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20000541     Document Type: Article

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