Mid-infrared gas filled photonic crystal fiber laser based on population inversion

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2309-2316

  Jones, Andrew M ^a   Nampoothiri, A V Vasudevan ^b   Ratanavis, Amarin ^b   Fiedler, Tobias ^b   Wheeler, Natalie V ^c   Couny, François ^c   Kadel, Rajesh ^a   Benabid, Fetah ^c   Washburn, Brian R ^a   Corwin, Kristan L ^a   Rudolph, Wolfgang ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FEEDBACK; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; GAS LASERS; INFRARED DEVICES; LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PUMPING (LASER);

EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; GAS PRESSURES; HOLLOW CORE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; LASER WAVELENGTH; LASER-PULSE ENERGY; LASING WAVELENGTH; MID-INFRARED SPECTRAL REGIONS; MIDINFRARED; OPTICALLY PUMPED; POPULATION INVERSIONS; PULSE ENERGIES; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

INFRARED LASERS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; GAS; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; PHOTON;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; GASES; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; PHOTONS;

EID: 79851475863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.002309     Document Type: Article

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