CW and Q-switched 2.1 μm Tm3+/Ho3+/Yb 3+-triply-doped tellurite fibre lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7111, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Richards, Billy D O ^a   Tsang, Yuen H ^b   Binks, David J ^b   Lousteau, Joris ^a   Jha, Animesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fibre; Holmium; Lasers; Q switching; Tellurite; Thulium; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; HOLMIUM; OPTICAL RADAR; PUMPS; Q SWITCHING; REMOTE SENSING; SILICA; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; THULIUM; YTTERBIUM;

ACTIVE Q-SWITCHING; CW LASING; FIBRE; FIBRE DAMAGES; FIBRE LASERS; MECHANICAL CHOPPERS; NEAR-IR; OUTPUT POWER; POWER-SCALING; PULSE ENERGIES; PULSE WIDTHS; Q-SWITCHED; SILICA FIBRE LASERS; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; STOKES EFFICIENCIES; STRONG PUMPS; TELLURITE; THERMAL DAMAGES;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 60849118082     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.800134     Document Type: Conference Paper

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