Model of longitudinally laser diode pumped erbium - ytterbium - codoped phosphate glass microchip laser with upconversion

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 817-823

  Song, Feng ^a   Liu, Shujing ^a   Wu, Zhaohui ^b   Cai, Hong ^a   Su, Jing ^a   Tian, Jianguo ^a   Xu, Jingjun ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Bookham Technology Company Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Cooperative upconversion; Cumulative upconversion; Er3+ yb3+ codoped phosphate glass laser; Output mirror transmission; Round trip dissipative optical loss; Waist of pump beam

Indexed keywords

CO-DOPED; COOPERATIVE UPCONVERSION; LASER OUTPUT; PHOSPHATE GLASS; PUMP BEAMS; ROUND-TRIP DISSIPATIVE OPTICAL LOSS; UP-CONVERSION; WAIST OF PUMP BEAM;

ERBIUM; GLASS; GLASS LASERS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MIRRORS; PUMPS; YTTERBIUM;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 70449352227     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2007.902379     Document Type: Article

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