Widely tunable fiber-coupled single-frequency Er-Yb:Glass laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 4327-4330

  Karlsson, Gunnar ^a   Myrèn, Niklas ^b   Margulis, Walter ^b   Taccheo, Stefano ^c   Laurell, Fredrik ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ACREO AB   (Sweden)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FEEDBACK; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; OPTICAL FIBERS; RADIATION;

GLASS LASERS;

LASERS;

EID: 0042733210     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.004327     Document Type: Article

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