Tunable four-pass narrow spectral bandwidth amplifier for use at ∼508 nm

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1310-1315

  Schwettmann, Arne ^a   McGuffey, Chris ^a   Chauhan, Savith ^a   Overstreet, K Richard ^a   Shaffer, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DYE LASERS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; LASER PULSES; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

FOUR-PASS DYE-LASER AMPLIFIERS; GAIN MEDIUM; NARROW-SPECTRAL-BANDWIDTH;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 34047184917     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.001310     Document Type: Article

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