Efficient narrow-linewidth volume-Bragg grating-locked Nd:fiber laser

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 11336-11340

  Jelger, Pär ^a   Laurell, Fredrik ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEWIDTH; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

NARROW-LINEWIDTH; ND:FIBER LASER;

BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 34548445086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.011336     Document Type: Article

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