Fabrication and spectroscopy of erbium doped gallium lanthanum sulphide glass fibres for mid-infrared laser applications

Optics Express

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 102-107

  Schweizer, T ^a   Brady, D J ^a   Hewak, D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; FLUORESCENCE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASER APPLICATIONS; LUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

FIBRE MATERIALS; FLUORESCENCE AND LUMINESCENCE; MID-INFRARED (MIR);

GLASS FIBERS;

EID: 0000319056     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.1.000102     Document Type: Article

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