Abstract
The current interest in optical communication systems operating around 1.5 μm has generated a requirement for coherent sources in this spectral region. Given the variety of measurements and investigations to which such sources would be applied, there is a need for a convenient versatile source, capable of operating cw, pulsed, mode-locked, and O-switched. With such a source in mind we have looked at the possibilities of an erbium glass laser pumped by a Nd:YAG laser operating at 1.064 μm.
© 1988 Optical Society of America
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