Compact efficient eye-safe intracavity optical parametric oscillator with a shared cavity configuration

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 3597-3601

  Chen, Y F ^a   Su, K W ^a   Chang, Y T ^a   Yen, W C ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; NEODYMIUM LASERS; Q SWITCHED LASERS;

SHARED CAVITY; SIGNAL PULSE;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 34547550441     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.003597     Document Type: Article

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