Efficient 213nm and 266 nm generations in Czochralski-grown beta-barium borates

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Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 79-83

  Kubota, Shigeo ^a   Masuda, Hisashi ^a   Kikuchi, Hiroki ^a   Kondo, Kenji ^a   Oka, Michio ^a   Tatsuki, Koichi ^a   Okamoto, Tsutomu ^a   Umezu, Nobuhiko ^a   Fukui, Tatsuo ^a   Wada, Hiroyuki ^a   Morita, Kaoru ^a  

^a SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Absorption; Nonlinear material; Optical breakdown; Scattering; Second harmonic generation

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

BETA-BARIUM BORATES; CAVITY LOSS; NONLINEAR MATERIALS; OPTICAL BREAKDOWN; POWER DENSITIES; RELIABILITY TEST; SCATTERING LOSS;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 84881140402     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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