Direct generation of a first-Stokes vortex laser beam from a self-Raman laser

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 12401-12408

  Lee, Andrew J ^a   Omatsu, Takashige ^b   Pask, Helen M ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LASER BEAMS;

DIODE END-PUMPED; DIRECT GENERATION; FIRST-ORDER; INTRACAVITIES; LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN; SELF-RAMAN LASER; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERINGS (SRS); VORTEX LASER BEAMS;

VORTEX FLOW;

DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SOLID STATE LASER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

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

EID: 84878546537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.012401     Document Type: Article

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