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Wavelength agile holmium-doped fiber laser

Simakov et al., 2016

Document ID
1305962556741016218
Author
Simakov N
Daniel J
Ward J
Clarkson W
Hemming A
Haub J
Publication year
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Fiber Lasers XIII: Technology, Systems, and Applications

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For the first time, an electronically-controlled, wavelength-agile tuneable holmium-doped fibre laser is presented. A narrow-band acousto-optic tuneable filter was characterized and used as the wavelength selective element to avoid any inertial effects associated with opto …
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