Engineering rare-earth-doped heavy metal oxide glasses for 2-5 μm lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7693, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Richards, Billy D O ^a   Jha, Animesh ^a   Dorofeev, Vitaly ^b   Manzur, Tariq ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY OF HIGH PURITY SUBSTANCES   (Russian Federation)

^c Naval Undersea Warfare Centre   (United States)

Author keywords

Fibre; Glass; Holmium; Lasers; Single mode; Tellurite; Thulium

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM OXIDES; GLASS; HEAVY METALS; HOLMIUM; LASERS; METAL IONS; OPTICAL RADAR; PUMPING (LASER); RARE EARTHS; REMOTE SENSING; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; THULIUM; TRANSMISSIONS; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

ATMOSPHERIC REMOTE SENSING; HEAVY METAL OXIDE GLASS; NUMERICAL APERTURE; PREFORM FABRICATION; SINGLE MODE; TELLURITE; TRIVALENT RARE EARTH IONS; TUNGSTEN TELLURITE;

FIBERS;

EID: 77957910461     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.852180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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