Diode-pumped, high-energy, single transverse mode Q-switch fibre laser

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 1955-1956

  Richardson, D J ^a   Britton, P ^a   Taverner, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fibre lasers; Q switching

Indexed keywords

LASER MODES; LASER PULSES; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0031556709     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19971325     Document Type: Article

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