Abstract

In recent years there have been several efforts to produce diode-pumped UV sources that are compact, robust, lightweight, low-cost, low-complexity, electrically efficient, and narrowband.¹"⁸ Frequency-converted passively Q-switched microchip lasers meet all of these goals and provide coherent, sub-nanosecond, multikilowatt, infrared, visible, and/or UV pulses at repetition rates in excess of 10 kHz.¹

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