Generation of turquoise light by sum frequency mixing of a diode-pumped solid-state laser and a laser diode in periodically poled KTP

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 4935-4940

  Johansson, Sandra ^a   Spiekermann, Stefan ^a   Wang, Shunhua ^a   Pasiskevicius, Valdas ^a   Laurell, Fredrik ^a   Ekvall, Katrin ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Cobolt AB ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CRYSTAL LATTICES; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTIMIZATION; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

DIODE-PUMPED LASERS; FREQUENCY CONVERSIONS; TURQUOISE OUTPUT POWER;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 9144272417     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.004935     Document Type: Article

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