High repetition rate, q-switched and intracavity frequency doubled Nd:YVO4 laser at 671nm

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3543-3547

  Ogilvy, Hamish ^a   Withford, Michael J ^a   Dekker, Peter ^a   Piper, James A ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; STIMULATED EMISSION;

FREQUENCY DOUBLING; PHASE MATCHING; POWER SCALING; QUANTUM DEFECT;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 4644359660     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.003543     Document Type: Article

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