Investigation of a 791-nm pulsed-pumped 2.7-μm Er-doped ZBLAN fibre laser

Optics Communications

Volumn 191, Issue 3-6, 2001, Pages 315-321

  Dickinson, B C ^a   Golding, P S ^a   Pollnau, M ^a   King, T A ^a   Jackson, S D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Erbium; Fibre lasers; Gain switching; Infrared sources

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; GAIN CONTROL; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; QUENCHING; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

INFRARED SOURCES; PULSED-PUMPED FIBER LASERS; RATE-EQUATION MODELS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0035826923     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(01)01061-6     Document Type: Article

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