Diode-pumped laser properties of Nd3+-doped la 2CaB10O19 crystal including two-frequency generation with 4.6 THz separation

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 18730-18737

  Brenier, A ^a,b,c   Wu, Yicheng ^d   Fu, Peizhen ^d   Zhang, Jianxiu ^d   Zu, Yanlei ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; PHASE MATCHING;

CONTINUOUS-WAVE LASER OPERATION; DIODE PUMPED LASERS; FREQUENCY DIFFERENCES; FREQUENCY GENERATION; NON-CENTROSYMMETRIC CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; SELF-FREQUENCY-DOUBLING; TWO-FREQUENCY LASERS;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 70350343476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018730     Document Type: Article

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