Near-IR tunable laser with an integrated LiTaO3electro-optic deflector

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 30, 2002, Pages 6416-6419

  Casson, Joanna L ^a,d   Wang, Li ^a   Libatique, Nathaniel J C ^a   Jain, Ravinder K ^a   Scrymgeour, David A ^b   Gopalan, Venkatraman ^b   Gahagan, Kevin T ^c   Sander, Robert K ^d   Robinson, Jeanne M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Incorporated ^*  (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; INFRARED RADIATION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL FILTERS; PRISMS;

ELECTRO-OPTIC DEFLECTORS;

LASER TUNING;

EID: 0037145455     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.006416     Document Type: Article

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