Comparison of Raman and degenerated optical parametric oscillators for a high-energy and high-repetition-rate eye-safe laser

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3579-3584

  Roy, Gilles ^a   Mathieu, Pierre ^a  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eye safe; High repetition rate; OPO conversion; Raman conversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142544267     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601112     Document Type: Article

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