100 mW high efficient single pass SHG at 488 nm of a single broad area laser diode with external cavity using a PPLN waveguide crystal

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 6976-6981

  Jechow, Andreas ^a   Skoczowsky, Danilo ^a   Menzel, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT EMISSION; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

OPTICAL OUTPUT POWER; PHOTOREFRACTIVE DAMAGE; SATURATION EFFECTS; WAVEGUIDE CHANNELS;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 34249697592     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.006976     Document Type: Article

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