Pulsed blue laser at 491nm by Nonlinear Cavity Dumping

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 19419-19426

  Herault, Emilie ^a   Lelek, Mickaël ^a   Balembois, François ^a   Georges, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

Q SWITCHING;

CONTINUOUS WAVE OPERATION; HIGH-FINESSE CAVITY; LASER OSCILLATORS; NANOSECOND PULSE; NONLINEAR CAVITIES; NONLINEAR CRYSTALS; PEAK POWER PULSE; SUM FREQUENCY MIXING;

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 56749149619     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.019419     Document Type: Article

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