High-peak-power operation of a Q-switched Tm3+-doped silica fiber laser operating near 2 μm

Optics Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 22-24

  El Sherif, Ashraf F ^a   King, Terence A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG CELLS; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; POSITIVE IONS; Q SWITCHING; THULIUM;

LASER PULSE ENERGY;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0037216846     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.28.000022     Document Type: Article

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