Duty cycle ratio dependence on the performance of a Q-switched laser with an Er3+-Yb3+ codoped glass waveguide

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1430-1434

  Yeniay, Aydin ^a   Delavaux, Jean Marc ^b   Toulouse, Jean ^a   Minford, William J ^b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; LASER MODE LOCKING; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; REFLECTOMETERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DUTY CYCLES (DC);

Q SWITCHED LASERS;

EID: 0038493620     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.001430     Document Type: Article

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