High-power continuous-wave 3- and 2-μm cascade Ho 3+: ZBLAN fiber laser and its medical applications

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 936-943

  Sumiyoshi, Tetsumi ^a,c,d   Sekita, Hitoshi ^a,c,d,e,f   Arai, Tsunenori ^b   Sato, Shunichi ^b   Ishihara, Miya ^b   Kikuchi, Makoto ^b  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d IEEE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE CASCADE OSCILLATION; GLASS FIBER LASER; LASER MATERIALS PROCESSING APPLICATIONS; MID INFRARED REGION; RAMAN FIBER;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; GLASS FIBERS; HOLMIUM; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER SURGERY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OSCILLATIONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0033315507     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.796314     Document Type: Article

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