Gain improvement by internal laser cavity in Tm3+/Yb 3+-codoped tellurite fiber amplifier pumped by 980-nm laser

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 8535-8539

  Chang, Jun ^a,b,c   Wang, Qingpu ^a   Peng, Gangding ^b   Zhang, Xingyu ^a   Liu, Zejin ^a   Ding, Shuanghong ^a   Liu, Zhaojun ^a   Zhang, Sasa ^a   Wang, Gongtang ^d  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Shandong Academy of Sciences   (China)

^d SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ENERGY TRANSFER; GAIN CONTROL; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; THULIUM COMPOUNDS;

CODOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LASER CAVITY; TELLURITE;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 33748946934     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.008535     Document Type: Article

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