Neodymium-doped tantalum pentoxide waveguide lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1565-1573

  Unal, Bayram ^a,b   Netti, M Caterina ^c   Hassan, Majid A ^a,c   Ayliffe, Peter J ^c   Charlton, Martin D B ^a   Lahoz, Fernando ^d   Perney, Nicolas M B ^a   Shepherd, David P ^a   Tai, Chao Yi ^a,e   Wilkinson, James S ^a   Parker, Greg J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Mesophotonics Limited   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^e NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Lasers; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL STRUCTURES; RIB WAVEGUIDES; SILICON SUBSTRATES;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; OPTICAL MATERIALS; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; SILICON WAFERS; SUBSTRATES; TANTALUM COMPOUNDS; THIN FILMS; WAVEGUIDES;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 29244460103     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2005.858775     Document Type: Article

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