Widely tunable yellow-green lasers based on the self-frequency-doubling material Yb:YAB

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 706-712

  Dekker, Peter ^a   Burns, Phillip A ^a   Dawes, Judith M ^a   Piper, James A ^a   Li, Jing ^b   Hu, Xiaobo ^b   Wang, Jiyang ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; YTTERBIUM;

YELLOW-GREEN LASERS;

LASER TUNING;

EID: 0037498329     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.20.000706     Document Type: Article

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