Highly efficient high-repetition-rate tunable all-solid-state optical parametric oscillator

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-61

  Peng, Xiaoyuan ^a,b   Xu, Lei ^a,c   Asundi, Anand ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Light Age Inc   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diode pumped solid state (DPSS) laser; Mid infrared; Nd:YLF; Optical parametric oscillators (OPO); Q switched; Tunable laser

Indexed keywords

LASER MODES; LASER TUNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

DIODE-PUMPED SOLID STATE LASER; TUNABLE LASER;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 12844261742     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.837952     Document Type: Article

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