Title :
2.78 µm fluoride glass fiber laser using guided mode resonance filter as external cavity mirror
Author :
Li, Yuan ; Woodward, Ryan H. ; Srimathi, Indumathi Raghu ; Pung, Aaron J. ; Poutous, Menelaos K. ; Johnson, Eric G. ; Shori, Ramesh K.
Author_Institution :
Holcombe Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC, USA
Abstract :
A diode pumped CW Erbium (Er)-doped Zr-Ba-La-Al-Na (ZBLAN) fluoride glass fiber laser operating at 2.78 μm was demonstrated using a guided mode resonance filter (GMRF) as an external cavity mirror.
Keywords :
aluminium compounds; barium compounds; erbium; fibre lasers; lanthanum compounds; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; laser modes; optical fibre filters; optical glass; optical pumping; sodium compounds; zirconium compounds; GMRF; ZBLAN; ZBLAN:Er; diode pumped CW erbium-doped fluoride glass fiber laser; external cavity mirror; guided mode resonance filter; wavelength 2.78 mum; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Pump lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Fiber lasers; Optical filters;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Burlingame, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0731-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6359249
