Tellurite glass lasers operating close to 2 μm

Laser Physics Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 177-193

  Richards, B ^a   Jha, A ^a   Tsang, Y ^b   Binks, D ^b   Lousteau, J ^a   Fusari, F ^c   Lagatsky, A ^c   Brown, C ^c   Sibbett, W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fibre; Glass; Holmium; Lasers; Tellurite; Thulium

Indexed keywords

EID: 76749125993     PISSN: 16122011     EISSN: 1612202X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lapl.200910131     Document Type: Article

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