Frequency-locked, injection-seeded, pulsed narrowband optical parametric generator

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 3564-3569

  Reichardt, Thomas A ^a   Bambha, Ray P ^a   Kulp, Thomas J ^a   Schmitt, Randal L ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; METHANE; NEODYMIUM LASERS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC GENERATORS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0038379733     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.003564     Document Type: Article

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