Highly efficient white light generation from barium fluoride

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 695-700

  Dharmadhikari, A K ^a   Rajgara, F A ^a   Reddy, N C S ^a   Sandhu, A S ^a   Mathur, D ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; COHERENT LIGHT; CRYSTALS; FLUORESCENCE; INFRARED RADIATION; IONIZATION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; PHASE MODULATION; PHOTONS; PLASMAS; Q SWITCHED LASERS; SPECTROMETERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FENTOSECOND LASER ENERGY; MULTIPHOTON EXCITATION (MPE); PULSE COMPRESSORS; SUPERCONTINUUM (SC);

LIGHT EMISSION;

EID: 2942744727     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.000695     Document Type: Article

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