Multi-wavelength, all-solid-state, continuous wave mode locked picosecond Raman laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 5289-5294

  Granados, Eduardo ^a   Pask, Helen M ^a   Esposito, Elric ^b   McConnell, Gail ^b   Spence, David J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEODYMIUM LASERS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PUMPING (LASER);

ALL-SOLID-STATE; CONTINUOUS WAVE MODES; MAXIMUM OUTPUT; MODE-LOCKED; MULTIWAVELENGTH; ND: YAG; OUTPUT PULSE; PICOSECONDS; RAMAN LASERS; SHORT-PULSE RADIATION; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; STOKES WAVELENGTH; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 77749304262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.005289     Document Type: Article

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