Tunable lasers based on diode pumped Tm-doped vanadates Tm:YVO4, Tm:GdVO4, and Tm:LuVO4

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6871, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Šulc, Jan ^a   Koranda, Petr ^a   Černý, Pavel ^a   Jelínková, Helena ^a   Urata, Yoshiharu ^b   Higuchi, Mikio ^c   Ryba Romanowski, Witold ^d   Lisiecki, Radosław ^d   Solarz, Piotr ^d   Dominiak Dzik, Grazina ^d   Sobczyk, Marcin ^e  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF LOW TEMPERATURE AND STRUCTURE RESEARCH   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Lyot filter; Tm:GdVO4; Tm:LuVO4; Tm:YVo4; Tunable laser

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); LASER TUNING; RESONATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; THULIUM;

LYOT FILTERS; SLOPE EFFICIENCY;

VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 42949133321     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.763011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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