Distributed feedback sol-gel zirconia waveguide lasers based on surface relief gratings

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 936-944

  Ye, Chao ^a   Wong, K Y ^a   He, Yaning ^b   Wang, Xiaogong ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS; ISOMERIZATION; LASER TUNING; PUMPING (LASER); SOL-GELS; ZIRCONIA;

PERMANENT GRATING; PHOTOISOMERIZATION; SURFACE RELIEF GRATING; ZIRCONIA FILMS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33846893671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.000936     Document Type: Article

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