High-energy, high-brightness Q-switched Tm3+-doped fiber laser using an electro-optic modulator

Optics Communications

Volumn 218, Issue 4-6, 2003, Pages 337-344

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electro optic modulator (EOM); High power fiber laser; Q switching; Thulium

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; Q SWITCHED LASERS; THULIUM;

ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0037385893     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(03)01200-8     Document Type: Article

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