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Monitoring the optical field energies in an intracavity cascaded crystalline pulsed Raman laser enables us to probe the dynamics and optimise the performance of the laser, which produces up to 2.1 W average output power at 4 wavelengths between 532 and 636 nm selectable by simple angle tuning.
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Pask, H.M., Mildren, R.P. & Piper, J.A. Optical field dynamics in a wavelength-versatile, all-solid-state intracavity cascaded pulsed Raman laser. Appl. Phys. B 93, 507–513 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-008-3197-x
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