Continuous-wave fiber-pumped Cr2+:ZnSe laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6190, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Demirbas, U ^a   Sennaroglu, A ^a   Vermeulen, N ^b   Ottevaere, H ^b   Thienpont, H ^b  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cr2+:ZnSe laser; Fiber pumped lasers; Fluorescence measurements; II VI compound semiconductors; Laser tuning; Mid infrared lasers; Solid state spectroscopy; Solid state lasers; Transition metal ions; ZnSe

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; II-VI COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTORS; MID-INFRARED LASERS; SOLID STATE SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSITION METAL IONS; ZNSE;

CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; FIBER LASERS; FLUORESCENCE; LASER TUNING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SOLID STATE LASERS; TRANSITION METALS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 33749548031     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.661725     Document Type: Conference Paper

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