One-, two-, and three-photon pumped lasing in a novel liquid dye salt system

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1003-1008

  He, Guang S ^a   Helgeson, Roger ^b   Lin, Tzu Chau ^a   Zheng, Qingdong ^a   Wudl, Fred ^b   Prasad, Paras N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavityless lasing; Frequency upconversion lasing; Liquid dye salt; Three photon pumped lasing; Two photon pumped lasing

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL PUMPING; SOLUBILITY; SOLVENTS; STIMULATED EMISSION;

CAVITYLESS LASING; FREQUENCY UPCONVERSION LASING; LIQUID DYE SALT; THREE-PHOTON PUMPED LASING; TWO-PHOTON PUMPED LASING;

PHOTONS;

EID: 0041671035     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2003.814372     Document Type: Article

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