1,9-μm-fiber-pumped Cn:ZnSe laser

OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics Series

Volumn 98, Issue , 2005, Pages 236-240

  Peterson, Rita D ^a   Schepler, Kenneth L ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHASE MODULATION; PUMPING (LASER);

Q-SWITCHED PUMPING; ZNSE LASER;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 33645227462     PISSN: 10945695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

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2. W. J. Alford, G. J. Wagner, A. .C. Sullivan, J. A. Keene, and T. J. Carrig, "High-power and Q-switched Cr:ZnSE lasers", in OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (TOPS) v. 83, Advanced Solid State Photonics, J. J. Zayhowski, ed., (Optical Society of America, Washington DC, 2003), pp. 13-17.
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4. The 16-pass cell design was based upon S. Erhard, M. Karszewski, C. Steven, and A. Giesen, "Pumping schemes for multi-kW thin disk lasers," OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (TOPS) v. 34, Advanced Solid State Lasers, (Optical Society of America, Washington DC, 2000), pp. 78-84.
5. J. B. McKay, "Power scaling feasibility of Chromium-doped II-VI laser sources and the demonstration of a Chromium-doped Zinc Selenide face-cooled disk laser", Ph.D. dissertation (Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 2003).