Ward, Jonathan M.; Wu, Yuqiang; Khalfi, Krimo; Nic Chormaic, Síle
(American Institute of Physics, 2010-07)
We report on the design of an electric tube furnace that can be used for the fabrication of doped glass microsphere lasers. The tube furnace has a short hot zone of length 133 mm and is based on a quartz tube design. Doped ...