Harmonic generation with fiber MOPAs and solid state lasers - Technical challenges, state-of-the-art comparison and future developments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7912, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Starodoumov, Andrei ^a   Hodgson, Norman ^a  

^a Research and Development Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber amplifiers; Frequency conversion; Harmonic generation; Intra cavity doubling; Q switching; Solid state lasers; Stimulated brillouin scattering; Stimulated Raman scattering; Vanadate amplifier

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY CONVERSION; INTRA-CAVITY DOUBLING; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN; STIMULATED RAMAN; VANADATE AMPLIFIER;

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PULSE REPETITION RATE; Q SWITCHING; SCATTERING; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING; ULTRASONICS; ULTRAVIOLET LASERS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 79954533108     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.876873     Document Type: Conference Paper

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