Temporal behavior of the laser pulse for intracavity optical parametric oscillator

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 4902-4908

  Lin, Bo ^a   Sang Lee, H ^a   Prasad, Coorg R ^a  

^a Science/Engineering Services Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; TUNING; WAVELENGTH;

PULSE WIDTH; RELAXATION OSCILLATION; WAVELENGTH TUNING ABILITY;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 34247202664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.004902     Document Type: Article

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