Tm-doped fiber lasers: Fundamentals and power scaling

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 85-92

  Moulton, Peter F ^a   Rines, Glen A ^a   Slobodtchikov, Evgueni V ^a   Wall, Kevin F ^a   Frith, Gavin ^b   Samson, Bryce ^b   Carter, Adrian L G ^b  

^a Q Peak Inc   (United States)

^b NUFERN   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber lasers; Spectroscopy; Thulium (Tm) doping

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); FIBERS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LASERS; LIGHT; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTONS; PUMPING (LASER); PUMPS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SILICA; THULIUM; WAVE POWER;

CONTINUOUS-WAVE POWER; CROSS RELAXATIONS; CROSS-RELAXATION PROCESS; DIFFRACTION-LIMITED BEAMS; DOPING LEVELS; ENERGY LEVELS; LASER EFFICIENCIES; LASER PHOTONS; LAUNCHED PUMP POWER; MULTI-MODE LASERS; MULTI-PHOTON EXCITATIONS; NUMERICAL APERTURES; OUTPUT POWER; POWER-SCALING; PUMP PHOTONS; SPECTROSCOPY; THULIUM (TM) DOPING; TM-DOPED FIBER LASERS;

FIBER LASERS;

EID: 60049095033     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.2010719     Document Type: Article

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