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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