Diode-cladding-pumped Yb3+, Ho3+-doped silica fiber laser operating at 2.1-μm

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 3546-3549

  Jackson, Stuart D ^a   Mossman, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; FLUORESCENCE; POSITIVE IONS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SILICA;

FLUORESCENCE EMISSION;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 0038041442     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.003546     Document Type: Article

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