High-Q UV whispering gallery mode resonators made of angle-cut BBO crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 21372-21378

  Lin, Guoping ^a   Fürst, Josef ^a,b   Strekalov, Dmitry V ^a   Grudinin, Ivan S ^a   Yu, Nan ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; BBO CRYSTALS; BETA BARIUM BORATE; POLARIZATION ROTATION; QUALITY FACTORS; ULTRA VIOLET; UPPER BOUND; UV REGION; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WHISPERING GALLERY MODE RESONATOR;

RESONATORS;

EID: 84866236485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.021372     Document Type: Article

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