Resonant pumping and upconversion in 1.6 μm Er3+ lasers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2454-2460

  White, Jeffrey Owen ^a   Dubinskii, Mark ^a   Merkle, Larry D ^a   Kudryashov, Igor ^b   Garbuzov, Dmitri ^b  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON LIGHTWAVE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; LASER OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL PUMPING;

PLANE WAVE MODEL; RESONANT PUMPING; UPCONVERSION;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 36049012064     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.24.002454     Document Type: Article

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