1.3-mW tunable and narrow-band continuous-wave light source at 191 nm

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 18659-18664

  Scholz, Matthias ^a   Opalevs, Dmitrijs ^a   Leisching, Patrick ^a   Kaenders, Wilhelm ^a   Wang, Guiling ^b   Wang, Xiaoyang ^b   Li, Rukang ^b   Chen, Chuangtian ^b  

^a TOPTICA PHOTONICS AG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

CONTINUOUS-WAVE LIGHT SOURCE; MECHANICALLY ROBUST; NARROW BANDS; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; SOLID STATE LASER;

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

EID: 84865580972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.018659     Document Type: Article

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