Laser emission in proton-implanted Nd:YAG channel waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 17874-17880

  Flores Romero, E ^a   Vazquez G V ^b   Marquez H ^a   Rangel Rojo, R ^a   Rickards, J ^c   Trejo Luna, R ^c  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION IMPLANTATION; LASER RESONATORS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

ELECTROFORMED MASK; ND:YAG CRYSTALS; PROPAGATION LOSSES; PROTON-IMPLANTS;

LIGHT EMISSION;

ALUMINUM; NEODYMIUM; PROTON; YTTRIUM; YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET; YTTRIUM-ALUMINUM-GARNET;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALUMINUM; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; NEODYMIUM; PROTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YTTRIUM;

EID: 37549033557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.017874     Document Type: Article

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