Broadband degenerate OPO for mid-infrared frequency comb generation

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6296-6302

  Leindecker, Nick ^a   Marandi, Alireza ^a   Byer, Robert L ^a   Vodopyanov, Konstantin L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FIBER LASERS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED LASERS; MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PUMPING (LASER);

COMMERCIAL MODE; DEGENERATE OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROSCOPY; FREQUENCY COMBS; INTRA-CAVITY DISPERSION; MIDINFRARED; MOLECULAR FINGERPRINT; NEAR-IR LASERS; OTHER APPLICATIONS; OUTPUT POWER; PUMP FREQUENCY;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; INFRARED RADIATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; OSCILLOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; OSCILLOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 79953222266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.006296     Document Type: Article

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