Green, holmium-doped upconversion fibre laser pumped by red semiconductor laser

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 1958-1960

  Funk, D S ^a   Eden, J G ^a   Osinski, J S ^b   Lu, B ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b SDL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Fibre lasers; Rare earth doped fibres; Upconversion

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; HIGH POWER LASERS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

HOLMIUM DOPED FLUOROZIRCONATE GLASS FIBER LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0031556637     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19971315     Document Type: Article

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