High-power and widely tunable all-fiber Raman laser

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1696-1701

  Bélanger, Erik ^a   Bernier, Martin ^a   Faucher, Dominic ^a   Côté, Daniel ^a   Vallée, Réal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

All fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Raman fiber lasers; Tunable all fiber lasers; Tunable fiber lasers; Tunable Raman fiber lasers

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; LASERS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; PUMPING (LASER);

ALL FIBER; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; GERMANO SILICATE FIBERS; HIGH POWERS; LASER THRESHOLDS; LAUNCHED PUMP POWER; OUTPUT POWERS; RAMAN FIBER LASER (RFL); RAMAN GAIN COEFFICIENTS; RAMAN LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 46349108130     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.922337     Document Type: Article

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