Tunable laser operation of a Tm3+-doped tellurite glass laser near 2 μm pumped by a 1211 nm semiconductor disk laser

Optical Materials

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1007-1010

  Fusari, F ^a   Vetter, S ^b   Lagatsky, A A ^a   Richards, B ^c   Calvez, S ^b   Jha, A ^c   Dawson, M D ^b   Sibbett, W ^a   Brown, C T A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2 m laser; Rare earth materials; SDL; Solid state lasers; Tellurite glass lasers

Indexed keywords

GLASS; GLASS LASERS; RARE EARTHS; SAPPHIRE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; RARE-EARTH MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR DISK LASER; SEMICONDUCTOR DISK LASERS (SDL); SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; TELLURITE GLASS; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER; TUNABLE LASER OPERATIONS;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 84865705783     PISSN: 09253467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2010.02.020     Document Type: Article

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