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A compact diode-pumped passively Q-switched mid-IR fiber laser

Nathaniel Joseph C. Libatique, Jason Tafoya, Steven Feng, Daniel Mirell, R. K. Jain

Advanced Solid-State Lasers · 2000 · 15 citations · 11 references

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Abstract

A compact cladding-pumped Er:ZBLAN mid-infrared pulsed fiber laser using a liquefying gallium mirror as a saturable absorber is demonstrated for the first time. Preliminary results give pulse widths of 7 µs and energies of 38 nJ.

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Passively Q-switched 01-mJ fiber laser system at 153 ?m

R. Paschotta, R. Häring, E. Gini et al. · Optics Letters · 1999 · 230 citations

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High-energy single-transverse-mode Q-switched fiber laser based on a multimode large-mode-area erbium-doped fiber

Herman L. Offerhaus, Neil G. R. Broderick, David J. Richardson et al. · Optics Letters · 1998 · 120 citations · Full text

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Monolithic self-Q-switched Cr,Nd:YAG laser

Shouhuan Zhou, Shiqun Li, K. K. Lee et al. · Optics Letters · 1993 · 114 citations

High-power "Watt-level" CW operation of diode-pumped 27 �m fiber lasers using efficient cross-relaxation and energy transfer mechanisms

Balaji Srinivasan, Jason Tafoya, Ravi Jain · Optics Express · 1999 · 75 citations · Full text

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Mid‐Infrared laser ablation of the cornea: A comparative study

Qiushi Ren, Vasan Venugopalan, Kevin T. Schomacker et al. · Lasers in Surgery and Medicine · 1992 · 56 citations