Double tungstate lasers: from bulk toward on-chip integrated waveguide devices

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 661-671

  Pollnau, Markus ^a   Romanyuk, Yaroslav E ^b   Gardillou, Florent ^c   Borca, Camella N ^d   Griebner, Uwe ^e   Rivier, Simon ^e   Petrov, Valentin ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Teem Photonics SA   (France)

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

CW lasers; Dielectric materials; Dielectric waveguides; Epitaxial layers; Integrated optics; Ion implantation; Optical planar waveguides; Optical strip waveguides; Optical waveguides; Pulsed lasers; Rare earth compounds; Solid lasers; Thulium compounds

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; EPITAXIAL LAYERS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; ION IMPLANTATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SOLID STATE LASERS; THULIUM COMPOUNDS;

MONOCLINIC DOUBLE TUNGSTATES; OPTICAL PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL STRIP WAVEGUIDES;

TUNGSTATE MINERALS;

EID: 34250729155     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.896094     Document Type: Article

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