Low-threshold, highly efficient Gd3+, Lu3+ co-doped KY(WO4)2:Yb3+ planar waveguide lasers

Laser Physics Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 800-805

  Geskus, D ^a   Aravazhi, S ^a   Bernhardi, E ^a   Grivas, C ^a,b   Harkema, S ^a   Hametner, K ^c   Gunther D ^c   Worhoff K ^a   Pollnau, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c LABORATORY OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CW laser; Dielectric waveguides; Double tungstates; Epitaxial layers; Liquid phase epitaxy; Optical planar waveguide; Waveguide laser; Ytterbium doping

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350084968     PISSN: 16122011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lapl.200910084     Document Type: Article

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