Dual tunable wavelength Er : Yb : Glass laser for terahertz beat frequency generation

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1554-1556

  Alouini, Mehdi ^a   Brunel, Marc ^a   Bretenaker, Fabien ^a   Vallet, Marc ^a   Le Floch, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Erbium; Laser tuning; Optical polarization; Solid lasers; Submillimeter wave lasers

Indexed keywords

ETALONS; LASER TUNING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTING GLASS;

MICHELSON INTERFEROMETERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0032207825     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.726747     Document Type: Article

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