Efficient operation of diode-pumped single-frequency thulium-doped fiber lasers near 2 μm

Optics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 355-357

  Geng, Jihong ^a   Wu, Jianfeng ^a   Jiang, Shibin ^a   Yu, Jirong ^b  

^a NP PHOTONICS INC   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SINGLE FREQUENCY FIBER LASERS; SINGLE MODE ACTIVE FIBER; SINGLE MODE PUMP DIODES; SLOPE EFFICIENCY;

DIODES; DOPING (ADDITIVES); GLASS FIBERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL PUMPING; THULIUM; WAVELENGTH;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 33847665188     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.32.000355     Document Type: Article

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