Watt-level 100-nm Tunable 3-μM Fiber Laser

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 156-158

  Zhu, Xiushan ^a   Jain, Ravi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared lasers; laser tuning; optical fiber lasers

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008023599     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.912495     Document Type: Article

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