Yb:YAl3(BO3)4: an efficient green self-frequency-doubled laser source

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Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 476-483

  Dekker, Peter ^a   Blows, Justin ^a   Wang, Pu ^a   Dawes, Judith ^a   Piper, James ^a   Omatsu, Takashige ^b   Liu, Yaogang ^c   Wang, Jiyang ^c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOUBLED LASER; HIGH-POWER OPERATION; LASER OPERATIONS; LASER SOURCES; NEW LASER MATERIALS; Q-SWITCHED; SELF-FREQUENCY-DOUBLED;

EID: 0038598909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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