Compact, passively Q-switched, all-solid-state master oscillator-power amplifier-optical parametric oscillator (mopa-opo) system pumped by a fiber-coupled diode laser generating high-brightness, tunable, ultraviolet radiation

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 3839-3845

  Peuser, Peter ^a   Platz, Willi ^a   Fix, Andreas ^b   Ehret, Gerhard ^b   Meister, Alexander ^c   Haag, Matthias ^d   Zolichowski, Paul ^d  

^a AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c OHB SYSTEM AG   (Germany)

^d Dilas GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER AMPLIFIERS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHING; ULTRAVIOLET LASERS;

DIODE PUMPED ND: YAG; FIBER-COUPLED DIODE LASERS; INTRACAVITY SUM-FREQUENCY MIXING; MASTER OSCILLATOR POWER AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; TUNABLE RADIATION; TUNABLE ULTRAVIOLETS;

PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

ARTICLE; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SOLID STATE LASER; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

LASERS, SOLID-STATE; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 67749124216     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.003839     Document Type: Article

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