Excitation of a Cr: Forsterite laser to the 3T1 band

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 4985-4988

  McKinnie, Iain T ^a   Gloster, Lawrence A W ^b   King, Terry A ^b   White, Richard T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Infrared and far infrared lasers; Laser materials; Rare earth and transition metal solid state lasers

Indexed keywords

EID: 5544258122     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.004985     Document Type: Article

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