Laser deposition and structuring of laser active planar waveguides of Er:ZBLAN, Nd:YAG and Nd:GGG for integrated waveguide lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6459, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Gottmann, Jens ^a   Moiseev, Leonid ^a   Wortmann, Dirk ^a   Vasilief, Ion ^a   Starovoytova, Larisa ^a   Ganser, Dimitri ^a   Wagner, Ralph ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fs laser microstructuring; Pulsed laser deposition; Waveguide laser

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; LASER RADIATION; MICROSTRUCTURE; NEODYMIUM; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; THIN FILMS; WAVEGUIDES;

FS LASER MICROSTRUCTURING; INFRARED LASERS; LASER ACTIVE PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDE LASER;

PULSED LASER DEPOSITION;

EID: 34248593210     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.706845     Document Type: Conference Paper

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