Femtosecond mode-locked Tm3+ and Tm3+-Ho3+ doped 2 μm glass lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 22090-22098

  Fusari, F ^a   Lagatsky, A A ^a   Jose, G ^b   Calvez, S ^c   Jha, A ^b   Dawson, M D ^c   Gupta, J A ^d   Sibbett, W ^a   Brown, C T A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; EFFICIENCY; GLASS; GLASS LASERS; ION IMPLANTATION; LOCKS (FASTENERS); QUANTUM WELL LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; CONTINUOUS WAVE MODES; CONTINUOUS WAVE OPERATION; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; PASSIVELY MODE-LOCKED; REPETITION FREQUENCY; SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION; TRANSFORM-LIMITED PULSE;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 78049495455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.022090     Document Type: Article

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