Diffused Ti:sapphire channel-waveguide lasers

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1452-1462

  Hickey, Louise M B ^a,b   Apostolopoulos, Vasilis ^a   Eason, Robert W ^a   Wilkinson, James S ^a   Anderson, Andrew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Southampton Photonics Incorporated   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PUMPING (LASER); SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THERMAL DIFFUSION; TITANIUM;

CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE CIRCUITS; PUMP POWER; WAVEGUIDE LASERS;

LASERS;

EID: 10044281647     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.001452     Document Type: Article

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