Sequence lasing in a gain-switched Yb3+, Er3+-doped silica double-clad fiber laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1698-1703

  Jackson, Stuart D ^a   Dickinson, Ben C ^b,c   King, Terence A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Lynton Lasers Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ABSORPTION; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; ERBIUM; LASER PULSES; LIGHT EMISSION; POSITIVE IONS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SILICA; SWITCHING; YTTERBIUM;

SEQUENCE LASING; SILICA DOUBLE-CLAD FIBER LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0037139019     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.001698     Document Type: Article

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