Highly efficient picosecond diamond Raman laser at 1240 and 1485 nm

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 3325-3333

  Warrier, Aravindan M ^a   Lin, Jipeng ^a   Pask, Helen M ^a   Mildren, Richard P ^a   Coutts, David W ^a   Spence, David J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84893955387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.003325     Document Type: Article

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