Progress in rare-earth-doped mid-infrared fiber lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 26704-26719

  Seddon, Angela B ^a   Tang, Zhuoqi ^a   Furniss, David ^a   Sujecki, Slawomir ^a   Benson, Trevor M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITED STATES; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; GLASS FIBERS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED LASERS; METAL IONS;

CHALCOGENIDE GLASS; GLASS HOSTS; GLASS PROCESSING; MIDINFRARED; MULTIPHONON RELAXATIONS; NON-RADIATIVE; NONRADIATIVE DECAYS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; RARE EARTH IONS; SELENIDE GLASS; SULFIDE GLASS;

GLASS LASERS;

CHALCOGEN; GLASS; LANTHANIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CHALCOGENS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; GLASS; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; METALS, RARE EARTH; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 78650058871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.026704     Document Type: Article

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