High-power (400mW) diode-pumped 2.7 μm Er:ZBLAN fibre lasers using enhanced Er-Er cross-relaxation processes

Electronics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 1338-1340

  Srinivasan, B ^a   Poppe, E ^b   Tafoya, J ^a   Jain, R K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRON ABSORPTION; ERBIUM; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PUMPING (LASER); RELAXATION PROCESSES;

ENHANCED CROSS RELAXATION PROCESS; EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION; MEAN DOPING DENSITY;

HIGH POWER LASERS;

EID: 0032641231     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19990899     Document Type: Article

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