Transmission of free-running and Q-switched erbium:YSGG laser radiation through sapphire and germanium fibers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5317, Issue , 2004, Pages 9-12

  Fried, Nathaniel M ^a   Yang, Yubing ^a   Chaney, Charles A ^a   Fried, Daniel ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Er:YAG; Er:YSGG; Erbium; Germanium oxide; Q switched; Sapphire; Transmission

Indexed keywords

FIBER TRANSMISSION; LASER RADIATION; SOFT TISSUE ABLATION; YAG LASERS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATTENUATION; ERBIUM; GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; LASER ABLATION; LASER PULSES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SAPPHIRE; TISSUE;

Q SWITCHED LASERS;

EID: 5744237442     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.526962     Document Type: Conference Paper

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