Photodegradation of fluoride glass blue fiber laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2998, Issue , 1997, Pages 70-81

  Chandonnet, Alain ^a   Laperle, Pierre ^a   LaRochelle, Sophie ^b   Vallee, Réal ^b  

^a INO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Color centers; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; Fluoride glass; Thulium; ZBLAN

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; COLOR CENTERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DEFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBERS; GLASS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED RADIATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LASERS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SENSITIVE MATERIALS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTOBLEACHING; PHOTODEGRADATION; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; POINT DEFECTS; PUMPS; SOLID STATE LASERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THULIUM;

BLUE UP CONVERSION; DAMAGE MECHANISMS; FIBER GRATINGS; FLUORIDE FIBERS; FLUORIDE GLASS; PHOTOINDUCED ABSORPTION (PA); PHOTOINDUCED PHENOMENA; POWER DEPENDENCE; PUMP PROBE EXPERIMENTS; RESEARCH TEAM (RT); START UPS; ZBLAN;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0002125763     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.264203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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