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All-solid-state continuous-wave tunable blue-light source by intracavity doubling of a diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF laser

Franck Falcoz, Daniel Rytz, François Balembois, Patrick Georges, Alain Brun

Optics Letters · 1995 · 30 citations · 11 references

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We describe a diode-pumped cw Cr(3+):LiSrAlF(6) laser that produces 190-mW cw output at 860 nm. By frequency doubling in a KNbO(3) crystal we generate 13 mW of second-harmonic light tunable from 427 to 443 nm.

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