Demonstration of a 1-W injection-locked continuous-wave titanium:sapphire laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 36, 2002, Pages 7583-7587

  Cummings, Elizabeth A ^a   Hicken, Malcolm S ^a   Bergeson, Scott D ^a  

^a Brigham Young University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; FREQUENCIES; INJECTION LASERS; LASER TUNING; SAPPHIRE; TITANIUM;

INJECTION-LOCKED LASERS;

RING LASERS;

EID: 0037147473     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.007583     Document Type: Article

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