Widely tunable Ce- and Er-codoped fluorozirconate fiber laser with 975-nm laser diode pumping

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 759-761

  Vasa, Nilesh J ^a   Nagaoka, Satoshi ^a   Okada, Tatsuo ^a   Kubota, Yoshinori ^b   Nishimura, Natuya ^b   Teshima, Takuya ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CENTRAL GLASS CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Laser tuning; Optical fiber lasers; Optical fiber materials; Optical glass; Rare earth doping

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LASER TUNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL GLASS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

CAVITY MIRROR; OPTICAL FIBER MATERIALS; RARE EARTH DOPING;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 17644381932     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.843277     Document Type: Article

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