Continuous-wave broadly tunable Cr2+:ZnSe laser pumped by a thulium fiber laser

Optics Communications

Volumn 268, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 115-120

  Sennaroglu, Alphan ^a   Demirbas, Umit ^a   Vermeulen, Nathalie ^b   Ottevaere, Heidi ^b   Thienpont, Hugo ^b  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FIBER LASERS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; OPTICAL PUMPING; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; THULIUM;

EMISSION MEASUREMENTS; LASER THRESHOLD DATA; OUTPUT COUPLERS; POWER PERFORMANCE;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS;

EID: 33751099084     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2006.06.064     Document Type: Article

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