An intracavity, frequency-doubled self-raman vortex laser

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 5400-5409

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

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

DIODE END-PUMPED; INTRA CAVITY FREQUENCY DOUBLING; INTRACAVITIES; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; ND:GDVO; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; STOKES BEAM; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84896375441     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.005400     Document Type: Conference Paper

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