Talk:Nd:YAG laser
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Tripled Nd:YAG is 355 nm and fourth harmonic is 266 nm.
Can someone find and insert references? 129.78.208.4 03:26, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
- Khalitov, D.A., Longmire, E.K. "Simultaneous two-phase PIV by two-parameter phase discrimination". Experiments in Fluids, 32, pp. 252-268, 2002. is a citation I saw in a paper that described using Nd:YAG lasers for PIV, but it's not online. 70.108.0.199 00:02, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- Assuming the request for reference is for "Tripled Nd:YAG is 355 nm and fourth harmonic is 266 nm." I don't know why you even need references. I mean, it's as simple as 1064 divided by 3 is about 355, and 1064 divided by 4 is about 266. Are we going to start requiring references for "1 + 1 = 2"? On the other hand, the reference that we should have is for "nonlinear optics" (since that's how these higher harmonics are obtained), and we have a link to that Wikipedia page (at least now ... more than one year later). novakyu (talk) 08:24, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Applications, laser ablation?
For the applications, in our lab, we are using an Nd:YAG laser at the fundamental frequency to do laser ablation (blasting of small pieces of sample through focused heating; we use it to make an atomic gas at low temperatures that can't support appreciable vapor pressure of the atomic species). My impression was there were a few other people doing some work involving laser ablation, but I don't know whether they all use some type of Nd:YAG laser, and frankly, I wouldn't know how to write the paragraph in ... general terms (i.e. not specific to our lab). novakyu (talk) 08:28, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
