5-W yellow laser by intracavity frequency doubling of high-power vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 1700-1702

  Fallahi, Mahmoud ^a   Fan, Li ^a,b   Kaneda, Yushi ^a   Hessenius, Chris ^a   Hader, Jörg ^a,c   Li, Hongbo ^a   Moloney, Jerome V ^a,c   Kunert, Bernardette ^d   Stolz, Wolfgang ^d   Koch, Stephan W ^d   Murray, James ^e   Bedford, Robert ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Lasertel Inc   (United States)

^c Nonlinear Control Strategies   (United States)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^e ARETÉ ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^f AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intracavity frequency doubling; Optically pumped semiconductor lasers; Tunable vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL)

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; LASERS; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); SODIUM; SOLID STATE LASERS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

CAVITY SURFACES; COMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS; CONTINUOUS; EXTERNAL-; HIGH-POWER; INTRACAVITY; INTRACAVITY FREQUENCY DOUBLING; OPTICALLY PUMPED SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TUNABLE VERTICAL-EXTERNAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASER (VECSEL); WAVE OUTPUTS; YELLOW LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 54049150841     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.2003413     Document Type: Article

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