Title :
Quasi-end-fired laser operation from waveguided DFB plastic dye lasers for fiber-top tunable laser
Author :
Oki, Yuji ; Ide, Masatsugu ; Tanaka, Keishi ; Watanabe, Hirofumi ; Miyawaki, Shotaro ; Maeda, Mitsuo
Author_Institution :
Graduate Sch. of ISEE, Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan
Abstract :
A novel pumping scheme quasi-end-firing (QEF) was proposed and demonstrated for waveguided DFB tunable fiber-top dye laser. QEF-DFB laser array has been fabricated and the QEFed-DFB laser operation was confirmed for first time.
Keywords :
distributed feedback lasers; dye lasers; laser arrays; laser tuning; optical pumping; waveguide lasers; QEF-DFB laser array; fiber-top tunable laser; quasiend-fired laser operation; waveguided DFB plastic dye lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
