Efficient 5.3 W cw laser at 559 nm by intracavity frequency summation of fundamental and first-Stokes wavelengths in a self-Raman Nd:GdVO4 laser

Optics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 682-684

  Lee, Andrew J ^a   Pask, Helen M ^a   Spence, David J ^a   Piper, James A ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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CW-LASER; INTRACAVITIES; ND:GDVO; NONLINEAR PROCESS; RAMAN GENERATION; SELF-RAMAN LASER; STOKES FIELD; STOKES WAVELENGTH; SUM-FREQUENCY MIXING;

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EID: 77649214724     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.000682     Document Type: Article

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