Improved emission of Tm3+-doped glass for a 1.4-μm amplifier by radiative energy transfer between Tm3+ and Nd3+

Optics Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 817-819

  Tanabe, Setsuhisa ^a   Feng, Xian ^a   Hanada, Teiichi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIATIVE ENERGY TRANSFER;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY TRANSFER; GLASS; NEODYMIUM; THULIUM;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0000596992     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.25.000817     Document Type: Article

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