Numerical analysts and experimental results of high-power Er/Pr:ZBLAN 2.7 μm fiber lasers with different pumping designs

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 27, 2006, Pages 7118-7125

  Zhu, Xiushan ^a   Jain, Ravi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERBIUM COMPOUNDS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL PUMPING; REFLECTION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

DOUBLE-CLAD FIBER LASERS; FRESNEL REFLECTIONS; GAIN FACTOR; ZBLAN FIBER TECHNOLOGIES;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 33750558066     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.007118     Document Type: Article

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