S. O. Antipov, V. A. Kamynin, O. I. Medvedkov, A. V. Marakulin, L. A. Minashina, A. S. Kurkov, A. V. Baranikov, “Holmium fibre laser emitting at 2.21 μm”, Kvantovaya Elektronika, 2013, Volume 43, Number 7,Pages <nobr>603

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Lasers

Holmium fibre laser emitting at 2.21 μm

S. O. Antipov^a, V. A. Kamynin^b, O. I. Medvedkov^c, A. V. Marakulin^d, L. A. Minashina^d, A. S. Kurkov^b, A. V. Baranikov^e

^a M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics
^b Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
^c Fiber Optics Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
^d Russian Federal Nuclear Center E. I. Zababakhin All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics, Snezhinsk
^e Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Dolgoprudny, Moscow region

Abstract: A holmium fibre laser emitting at 2.21 μm has been demonstrated. This wavelength is the longest for silica-based fibre lasers. The output power of the laser is 130 mW.

Keywords: holmium, fibre laser, two micron spectral region.

PACS: 42.55.Wd, 42.60.Jf, 42.60.Lh

Received: 03.12.2012
Revised: 22.02.2013