10-Watt, pure continuous-wave, polycrystalline Cr2+: ZnS laser

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2048-2056

  Moskalev, I S ^a   Fedorov, V V ^a   Mirov, S B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; ZINC SULFIDE;

CENTRAL WAVELENGTH; CONTINUOUS WAVE; INCIDENT PUMP POWER; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; POLYCRYSTALLINE; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WAVELENGTH TUNING;

PUMPING (LASER);

CHROMIUM; SULFIDE; ZINC DERIVATIVE; ZINC SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CHROMIUM; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SULFIDES; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 60549110078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.002048     Document Type: Article

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