Compact, all solid-state, high-repetition-rate 336nm source based on a frequency quadrupled, Q-switched, diode-pumped Nd:YVO4 laser

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 9465-9471

  Ogilvy, Hamish ^a   Piper, James A ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC GENERATION; SWITCHES;

BBO; FOURTH HARMONIC GENERATION;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 27744606525     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.009465     Document Type: Article

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