Neodymium-doped cladding-pumped aluminosilicate fiber laser tunable in the 0.9-μm wavelength range

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1275-1282

  Soh, Daniel B S ^a   Yoo, Seongwoo ^b   Nilsson, Johan ^a   Sahu, Jayanta K ^a   Oh, Kyunghwan ^b   Baek, Seungin ^a   Jeong, Yoonchan ^a   Codemard, Christophe ^a   Dupriez, Pascal ^a   Kim, Jaesun ^a   Philippov, Valery ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); LASER TUNING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NEODYMIUM; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PUMPING (LASER); REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

ALUMINOSILICATE FIBER LASER; TUNABLE LASER; WAVEGUIDE FILTERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 4544304145     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.833230     Document Type: Article

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