Ultrabroadband infrared solid-state lasers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 690-712

  Sorokin, Evgeni ^a,b   Naumov, Sergey ^a   Sorokina, Irina T ^a,b,c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^c GPI ^*

Author keywords

Laser; Mid infrared; Near infrared; Tunable

Indexed keywords

MID-INFRARED; NEAR-INFRARED; TUNABLE;

REMOTE SENSING; SAPPHIRE; STANDARDS; TRANSITION METALS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 27444437325     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2003.850255     Document Type: Article

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