Multi-wait 589nm fiber laser source

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6102, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Dawson, Jay W ^a   Drobshoff, Alex D ^a   Beach, Raymond J ^a   Messerly, Michael J ^a   Payne, Stephen A ^a   Brown, Aaron ^a   Pennington, Deanna M ^a   Bamford, Douglas J ^b   Sharpe, Scott J ^b   Cook, David J ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Erbium lasers; Fiber lasers; Neodymium lasers; Non linear frequency conversion; Sum frequency mixing

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM LASERS; IPG FIBER; NON LINEAR FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PERIODICALLY POLED STOICHIO METRIC LITHIUM TANTALATE (PPSLT); SUM FREQUENCY MIXING;

CLADDING (COATING); DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; TANTALATE MINERALS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 33645990048     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.644947     Document Type: Conference Paper

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