Holmium, praseodymium-doped fluoride fiber laser operating near 2.87 μm and pumped with a Nd:YAG laser

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4315-4320

  Qamar, Fadi Z ^a   King, Terence A ^b   Jackson, Stuart D ^c   Tsang, Yuen Hong ^b  

^a DAMASCUS UNIVERSITY   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Codoped fiber lasers; Fluoride zirconium, barium, lanthanum, aluminum, and sodium (ZBLAN) fiber lasers; Midinfrared; Upconversion

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; HOLMIUM; NEODYMIUM; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; POSITIVE IONS; PRASEODYMIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

CODOPED FIBER LASERS; MIDINFRARED; UPCONVERSION; YTTRIUM-ALUMINUM-GARNET (YAG);

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 31344464198     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.858251     Document Type: Article

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