Compact 492-nm light source based on sum-frequency mixing

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2590-2595

  Johansson, Sandra ^a   Wang, Shunhua ^a   Pasiskevicius, Valdas ^a   Laurell, Fredrik ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL PUMPING; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

COMPACT DESIGN; FREQUENCY MIXING; VISIBLE LASERS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 21244463931     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.002590     Document Type: Article

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