Passively Q-switched Tm3+-doped silica fiber lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 3311-3317

  Jackson, Stuart D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); LASER CLADDING; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; SILICA; WAVELENGTH;

FIBER LASER CAVITY; INTRACAVITY PUMPING; SILICA FIBERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 34547316416     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.003311     Document Type: Article

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