Research Letters in Optics
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 919403, 3 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/919403
Research Letter

High Power Tm3+-Doped Fiber Lasers Tuned by a Variable Reflective Output Coupler

Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai 201800, China

Received 19 February 2008; Accepted 9 April 2008

Academic Editor: Sulaiman Wadi Harun

Copyright © 2008 Yulong Tang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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