Performance of a diode-pumped BaY2F8:Er3+(7.5 at.%) laser at 2.8 μm

Optics Communications

Volumn 132, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 107-110

  Wittwer, S ^a   Pollnau, M ^a   Spring, R ^a   Luthy W ^a   Weber, H P ^a   McFarlane, R A ^b   Harder, Ch ^c   Meier, H P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

^c IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; ERBIUM; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; LASER RESONATORS; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

BARIUM YTTRIUM FLUORIDE; LASER CRYSTALS; SLOPE EFFICIENCY; THRESHOLD POWER;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0030291319     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0030-4018(96)00313-6     Document Type: Article

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