Blue-green single-frequency laser based on intracavity frequency doubling of a diode-pumped Ytterbium-doped laser

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2345-2350

  Jacquemet, Mathieu ^a   Druon, Frédéric ^a   Balembois, François ^a   Georges, Patrick ^a   Ferrand, Bernard ^b  

^a INSTITUT D'OPTIQUE GRADUATE SCHOOL   (France)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SOLID STATE LASERS; YTTERBIUM COMPOUNDS; YTTRIUM;

BLUE-GREEN SINGLE-FREQUENCY LASERS; INTRACAVITY FREQUENCY DOUBLING; PRECISION SPECTROSCOPY; RING OSCILLATORS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 21244490061     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.002345     Document Type: Article

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