230 mW of blue light from a thulium-doped upconversion fiber laser

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1100-1102

  Paschotta, Rüdiger ^a,b   Moore, Nick ^a   Clarkson, W Andrew ^a   Tropper, Anne C ^a   Hanna, David C ^a   Mazé, Gwenael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Campus Ker Lann ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Fiber laser; Upconversion laser

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

THULIUM DOPED FIBER LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0031198628     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.649548     Document Type: Article

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