Heavily erbium-doped low-hydroxyl fluorotellurite glasses for 2.7 μm laser applications

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1127-1136

  Wang, Ruosong ^a   Meng, Xiangwei ^a   Yin, Feixiang ^a   Feng, Yan ^b   Qin, Guanshi ^a   Qin, Weiping ^a  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING CONCENTRATION; ERBIUM CONCENTRATIONS; FLUORO-TELLURITE GLASS; LOW PHONON ENERGIES; MID-INFRARED EMISSION; MOLAR COMPOSITIONS; STIMULATED EMISSION CROSS SECTION; TELLURITE GLASS SYSTEMS;

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; GLASS; LASER APPLICATIONS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

ERBIUM;

EID: 84884194457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.3.001127     Document Type: Article

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