Development of resonantly cladding-pumped holmium-doped fibre lasers

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8237, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hemming, Alexander ^a   Bennetts, Shayne ^a   Simakov, Nikita ^a   Haub, John ^a   Carter, Adrian ^b  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b NUFERN   (United States)

Author keywords

Fibre Laser; Holmium; Mid IR; Thulium

Indexed keywords

HIGH AVERAGE POWER; LARGE MODE AREA FIBRE; LASER DEVICE; LASER SOURCES; MID-IR; MIDINFRARED; OUTPUT ENERGY; OUTPUT POWER; POWER SCALABILITY; POWER-SCALING; REPETITION RATE; RESONANT PUMPING; SINGLE MODE; SPECTRAL REGION;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; FIBER LASERS; FIBERS; HOLMIUM; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL PUMPING; THULIUM;

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 84859647713     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.909458     Document Type: Conference Paper

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