Potential sodium D2 resonance radiation generated by intra-cavity SHG of a c-cut Nd:YVO4 self-Raman laser

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6333-6338

  Duan, Yanmin ^a,c   Zhu, Haiyong ^b   Huang, Chenghui ^a   Zhang, Ge ^a   Wei, Yong ^a  

^a FUJIAN INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH ON THE STRUCTURE OF MATTER   (China)

^b WENZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FIBER LASERS; NEODYMIUM; PUMPS; RESONANCE; SODIUM;

589 NM EMISSION; CENTER WAVELENGTH; DIODE PUMP POWER; INTRACAVITIES; ND:YVO4 CRYSTALS; OUTPUT POWER; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES; PULSE WIDTH; PUMP POWER; RESONANCE RADIATION; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SELF-RAMAN LASER;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

SODIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; SOLID STATE LASER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LIGHTING; SODIUM;

EID: 79953171939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.006333     Document Type: Article

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