Red-green-blue (RGB) light generator using tapered fiber pumped with a frequency-doubled Yb-fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 8547-8554

  Rusu, M ^a   Kivisto S ^a   Gawith, C B E ^b   Okhotnikov, O G ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b Stratophase Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LITHIUM NIOBATE; OPTICAL PUMPING; YTTERBIUM;

GREEN PUMP LIGHT; PERIODICALLY-POLLED LITHIUM NIOBATE (PPLN) CRYSTAL; RED-GREEN-BLUE (RGB) LIGHT GENERATOR; TAPERED FIBERS;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 26844431662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.008547     Document Type: Article

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