Fe2+: ZnSe and graphene Q-switched singly Ho3+-doped ZBLAN fiber lasers at 3 μm

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1365-1377

  Zhu, Gongwen ^a   Zhu, Xiushan ^a   Balakrishnan, Kaushik ^a   Norwood, Robert A ^a   Peyghambarian, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; COATED FIBERS; GRAPHENE SATURABLE ABSORBERS; PASSIVELY Q-SWITCHED; PULSE GENERATION; Q-SWITCHED FIBER LASERS; REPETITION RATE; WAVELENGTH REGIONS;

FIBER LASERS; GLASS FIBERS; PULSE GENERATORS; Q SWITCHING; SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84884171388     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.3.001365     Document Type: Article

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