Continuous-wave watt-level Nd:YLF/KGW Raman laser operating at near-IR, yellow and lime-green wavelengths

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 9841-9850

  Jakutis Neto, Jonas ^a,b   Lin, Jipeng ^a   Wetter, Niklaus Ursus ^b   Pask, Helen ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PUMPING (LASER);

CONTINUOUS WAVES; GOOD BEAM QUALITY; NEAR-IR; OUTPUT POWER; PEAK POWER; RAMAN CONVERSION; RAMAN LASERS; STABLE OPERATION; THERMAL LENSING;

NEODYMIUM;

ARTICLE; COLOR; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SOLID STATE LASER;

COLOR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84861114162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.009841     Document Type: Article

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