Title : 
Nd3+-doped tellurite glass laser at 1.37 µm
         
        
            Author : 
Cankaya, Huseyin ; Sennaroglu, Alphan
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Phys., Koc Univ., Istanbul, Turkey
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We have demonstrated for the first time to our knowledge, lasing at 1.37 mum in a neodymium-doped tellurite glass host. The slope efficiency and emission cross section were determined to be 5.5% and 1.57 times 10-20 cm2, respectively.
         
        
            Keywords : 
emission; fibre lasers; glass fibres; neodymium; solid lasers; tellurium compounds; TeO2-WO3:Nd; emission cross section; glass laser; slope efficiency; tellurite glass; wavelength 1.37 mum; Absorption; Fiber lasers; Glass; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Laser theory; Laser transitions; Neodymium; Optical pulses; Pump lasers;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Belek-Antalya
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-3680-4
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
1092-8081
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343355