Fiber-microsphere laser with a submicrometer sol-gel silica glass layer codoped with erbium, aluminum, and phosphorus

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Takashima, Hideaki ^a   Fujiwara, Hideki ^a   Takeuchi, Shigeki ^a   Sasaki, Keiji ^a   Takahashi, Masahide ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ERBIUM; FUSED SILICA; IONS; MICROSPHERES; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SOL-GEL PROCESS;

SILICA MICROSPHERE; SUBMICROMETER THICKNESS; TAPER MICROSPHERE SYSTEM; THIN GAIN LAYERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 33947143659     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2711384     Document Type: Article

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