Hollow fibers for delivery of harmonic pulses of Q-switched Nd:YAG lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 442-445

  Matsuura, Yuji ^a   Takada, Goro ^a   Yamamoto, Takashi ^a   Shi, Yi Wei ^a   Miyagi, Mitsunobu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC GENERATION; HIGH POWER LASERS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; METALLORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; MIRRORS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PLASTIC FILMS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

FLEXIBLE HOLLOW FIBERS; HARMONIC PULSES;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0037137787     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.000442     Document Type: Article

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