'Field-usable' diode-pumped ∼120nm wavelength-tunable CW mid-IR fibre laser

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作者
Libatique, NJC [1 ]
Tafoya, J
Viswanathan, NK
Jain, RK
Cable, A
机构
[1] Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87106 USA
[2] Thorlabs Inc, Newton, NJ 07860 USA
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10.1049/el:20000594
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
The authors report continuously tunable (2.71 mu m - 2.83 mu m) operation of a diode-pumped mid-IR Er-doped ZBLAN fibre laser, with output powers >1 mW over the entire 120nm tuning range and > 5mW over 56nm (2.78 mu m to 2.83 mu m) of this range.
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