High power 1.9 μm Tm3+-silica fibre laser pumped at 1.09 μm by a Yb3+-silica fibre laser

Optics Communications

Volumn 231, Issue 1-6, 2004, Pages 357-364

  Tsang, Yuen H ^a   Coleman, Daniel J ^a   King, Terence A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fibre laser; High power fibre; Thulium; Tm; Wavelength conversion; Yb; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BRAGG CELLS; CHARACTERIZATION; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; INCLUSIONS; PUMPING (LASER); THULIUM COMPOUNDS; YTTERBIUM COMPOUNDS;

BRAGG GRATING TECHNOLOGY; DIRECT PUMP SOURCE; FRESNEL REFLECTION; HIGH POWER FIBER; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 0942300318     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2003.11.072     Document Type: Article

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