Waveguide lasers in the C-band fabricated by laser inscription with a compact femtosecond oscillator

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 277-285

  Osellame, Roberto ^b,c,f,g,h   Chiodo, Nicola ^c   Valle, Giuseppe Della ^c   Cerullo, Giulio ^c,h   Ramponi, Roberta ^c,h,i   Laporta, Paolo ^c,j   Killi, Alexander ^d,e,k   Morgner, Uwe ^e,h,k   Svelto, Orazio ^a,c,f,h,l  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d TRUMPF LASER UND SYSTEMTECHNIK GMBH   (Germany)

^e LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^f Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies (IFN)   (Italy)

^g Faculty of Engineering   (Italy)

^h OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

ⁱ European Optical Society   (Italy)

^j European Physical Society   (Finland)

^k Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physical Society)   (Germany)

^l ACCADEMIA NAZIONALE DEI LINCEI   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Erbium doped waveguide lasers; Integrated optics; Laser material processing applications; Ultrafast lasers

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM DOPED WAVEGUIDE LASERS; LASER MATERIAL PROCESSING APPLICATIONS; ULTRAFAST LASERS; WAVEGUIDE LASERS;

COUPLINGS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LASERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PULSE GENERATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; WAVE PROPAGATION; YTTERBIUM;

OSCILLISTORS;

EID: 33646680523     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2006.872731     Document Type: Article

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