Modeling rare-earth doped microfiber ring lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 7073-7086

  Li, Yuhang ^a   Vienne, Guillaume ^a   Jiang, Xiaoshun ^a   Pan, Xinyun ^a   Liu, Xu ^a   Gu, Peifu ^a   Tong, Limin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; RARE EARTH ADDITIONS;

ACTIVE IONS; PASSIVE MICROFIBER RINGS; RARE-EARTH DOPED MICROFIBER RING LASERS; RATE EQUATIONS;

RING LASERS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOLID STATE LASER; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LENSES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33746925944     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.007073     Document Type: Article

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