50W CW visible laser source at 589nm obtained via frequency doubling of three coherently combined narrow-band Raman fibre amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 8540-8555

  Taylor, Luke R ^a   Feng, Yan ^a   Calia, Domenico Bonaccini ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; SODIUM;

DIFFRACTION LIMITED; FIBRE AMPLIFIER; FREE SPACE; FREQUENCY-DOUBLING; HIGH-POWER; MACH ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETRY; NARROW BANDS; OTHER APPLICATIONS; POWER LEVELS; POWER SCALABILITY; RESONANT CAVITY; STAR SYSTEMS; VISIBLE LASERS;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 77950882047     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.008540     Document Type: Article

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