Efficiency dependence on the Tm3+and Al3+concentrations for Tm3+-doped silica double-clad fiber lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 2702-2707

  Jackson, Stuart D ^a   Mossman, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CLADDING (COATING); DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; SILICA; THULIUM;

ENERGY MIGRATION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0041328358     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.002702     Document Type: Article

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