Utilization of the yellow component of a copper-vapor laser for extending the tuning range of a rhodamine 6G dye laser by use of an additional dye in a novel coupled resonator scheme

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 4921-4924

  Khare, Rajeev ^a   Daultabad, Shankar R ^a   Jain, Rajiv ^a   Bhatnagar, Rajiva ^a  

^a RAJA RAMANNA CENTRE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (India)

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EID: 0242608637     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.004921     Document Type: Article

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