Continuous-wave Lyman-α generation with solid-state lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 11274-11280

  Scheid, Martin ^a   Kolbe, Daniel ^a   Markert, Frank ^a   Hänsch, Theodor W ^b   Walz, Jochen ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

(140.7240) UV, EUV, and X ray lasers; (190.4380) Nonlinear optics, four wave mixing

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; MIXER CIRCUITS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE MATCHING; PHOTONS; RESONANCE; X RAY LASERS;

ALPHA SOURCES; CONTINUOUS WAVE; MERCURY VAPOR; PHASE-MATCHING CURVES; PHOTON RESONANCE; SUM FREQUENCY MIXING; THIRD-ORDER NONLINEAR SUSCEPTIBILITY; TWO-PHOTON RESONANCE;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 67650538973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.011274     Document Type: Article

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