Low threshold monocrystalline Nd:(Gd, Lu)2O3 channel waveguide laser

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4412-4418

  Kahn, Andreas ^a   Heinrich, Sebastian ^a   Kühn, Henning ^a   Petermann, Klaus ^a   Bradley, Jonathan D B ^b   Wörhoff, Kerstin ^b   Pollnau, Markus ^b   Huber, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; PUMPING (LASER); REACTIVE ION ETCHING; WAVEGUIDES;

ATOMICALLY FLAT SURFACE; CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE; EPITAXIALLY GROWN; INCIDENT PUMP POWER; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; RARE EARTH DOPED; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; WAVEGUIDE LASERS;

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 62549143483     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.004412     Document Type: Article

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