Optical Performance Comparison of Argon-Ion and Solid-State Cyan Lasers

Edward H. Wahl, Bruce A. Richman, Chris W. Rella, Guido M. H. Knippels and Barbara A. Paldus

Recent advances in biotechnology have created a need for compact, efficient and reliable 488-nm cyan lasers, a trend which has hastened the development of technologies to replace air-cooled argon-ion lasers in biomedical instrumentation applications.

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