High-power fiber-bulk hybrid lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6100, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Clarkson, W Andrew ^a   Shen, Deyuan ^a   Sahu, Jayanta K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Er; Er:YAG; Ho:YAG; In band pumping; Q switch, hybrid laser; Tm doped fiber; Yb doped fiber

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; ERBIUM; LASER PULSES; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; Q SWITCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

ER:YAG; HO:YAG; IN-BAND PUMPING; Q-SWITCH, HYBRID LASERS; TM-DOPED FIBER; YB-DOPED FIBER;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 33646181416     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.660930     Document Type: Conference Paper

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