Mid-IR supercontinuum generation in a ZBLAN fiber pumped by a gain-switched mode-locked Tm-doped fiber laser and amplifier system

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 7851-7857

  Swiderski, Jacek ^a   Michalska, Maria ^a   Maze, Gwenael ^b  

^a MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Le Verre Fluore Campus KerLann ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; GLASS FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; GAIN-SWITCHED; MID INFRARED (MID IR); MODE-LOCKED; SELF MODE-LOCKED; THULIUM-DOPED FIBERS; TM-DOPED FIBER LASER; ZERO-DISPERSION WAVELENGTH;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

THULIUM;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FIBER OPTICS; INFRARED RADIATION; SOLID STATE LASER;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; THULIUM;

EID: 84875991382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.007851     Document Type: Article

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