Beam-Quality Studies of Nanosecond Singly Resonant Optical Parametric Oscillators

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 541-549

  Lyons, Séan C ^a   Oppo, Gian Luca ^a,c   Firth, William J ^a   Barr, John R M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b Laser Development Group   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Beam quality; Idler absorption; Optical parametric oscillators

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347945103     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.842095     Document Type: Article

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