Characterization of single-crystal synthetic diamond for multi-watt continuous-wave raman lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 328-337

  Savitski, Vasili G ^a   Friel, Ian ^b   Hastie, Jennifer E ^a   Dawson, Martin D ^a   Burns, David ^a   Kemp, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b ELEMENT SIX LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Raman gain; Raman laser; Raman scattering; solid lasers

Indexed keywords

BEAM PROPAGATION FACTOR; CONTINUOUS WAVES; CONTINUOUS-WAVE RAMAN LASER; INTRACAVITIES; MAXIMUM VALUES; OUTPUT POWER; PUMP WAVELENGTH; RAMAN GAIN; RAMAN GAIN COEFFICIENTS; RAMAN LASER MATERIALS; RAMAN LASERS; ROD LASERS; SIDE-PUMPED; SOLID LASER;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LUMINANCE; NEODYMIUM; RAMAN SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC DIAMONDS; YLF LASERS;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 84856521376     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2011.2179917     Document Type: Article

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