Thulium fiber laser-pumped mid-IR OPO

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6952, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Creeden, Daniel ^a   Jiang, Min ^b   Budni, Peter A ^a   Ketteridge, Peter A ^a   Setzler, Scott D ^a   Young, York E ^a   McCarthy, John C ^a   Schunemann, Peter G ^a   Pollak, Thomas M ^a   Tayebati, Parviz ^b   Chicklis, Evan P ^a  

^a BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^b StockerYale Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

mid IR; Nonlinear optics; OPO; Tm doped fiber amplifier; ZGP

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; INFRARED RADIATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PUMPING (LASER); THULIUM; WAVELENGTH;

DIFFRACTION-LIMITED BEAM; NONLINEAR OPTICAL CRYSTALS; PUMP WAVELENGTHS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 44349168227     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.775196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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