400 mW low noise continuous-wave single-frequency Er,Yb:YAl3(BO3)4 laser at 1.55 μm

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 6082-6090

  Li, Yuanji ^a   Feng, Jinxia ^a   Li, Peng ^a   Zhang, Kuanshou ^a   Chen, Yujin ^b   Lin, Yanfu ^b   Huang, Yidong ^b  

^a SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUJIAN INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH ON THE STRUCTURE OF MATTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; SAPPHIRE; SHOT NOISE; YTTERBIUM;

CONTINUOUS WAVES; LASER OUTPUT; LASER PERFORMANCE; SAPPHIRE PLATES; SHOT-NOISE LEVEL; SINGLE TRANSVERSE MODES; SINGLE-FREQUENCY; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 84875130554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.006082     Document Type: Article

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