A wavelength-versatile, continuous-wave, self-Raman solid-state laser operating in the visible

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 20013-20018

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

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASERS; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING;

CONTINUOUS WAVES; GREEN-YELLOW SPECTRAL REGION; INTRACAVITIES; MULTIWAVELENGTH; ND:GDVO; NONLINEAR PROCESS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; OUTPUT POWER; SECOND HARMONICS; SELF-RAMAN LASER; SUM-FREQUENCY GENERATION; THREE-WAVELENGTHS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIODE LASER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 77957004757     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.020013     Document Type: Article

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