Cascaded intracavity frequency down-conversion of 1 μm laser radiation to the mid-IR
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1Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, 2A Max-Born-Str., D-12489 Berlin, Germany, 2Special Technologies, Ltd., 1/3 Zeljonaja gorka Str., 630060 Novosibirsk, Russia, 3Research Laboratory of Quantum Optics Technology, Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova Str., 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia, 4Department of Applied Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden, e-mail: [email protected]
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