Energy recycling versus lifetime quenching in erbium-doped 3-μm fiber lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 162-169

  Pollnau, Markus ^a   Jackson, Stuart D ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diode pumped lasers; Infrared lasers; Laser biomedical applications; Optical fiber lasers; Rare earth lasers

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ENERGY TRANSFER; ERBIUM; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PUMPING (LASER); QUENCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

ENERGY RECYCLING; ENERGY TRANSFER IPCONVERSION; INFRARED LASERS; LASER LEVEL; PUMP POWERS; RARE EARTH LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0036477444     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.980268     Document Type: Article

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