Epitaxial neodymium-doped sapphire films, a new active medium for waveguide lasers

Optics Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 3358-3360

  Kumaran, Raveen ^a   Webster, Scott E ^a   Penson, Shawn ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Tiedje, Thomas ^a,b   Wei, Peng ^c   Schiettekatte, Francois ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM LASERS; SAPPHIRE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ACTIVE MEDIUM; EMISSION CROSS SECTION; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; HIGH-TEMPERATURE GROWTH; NEODYMIUM DOPED; NON-EQUILIBRIUM PHASE; SAPPHIRE FILM; WAVEGUIDE LASERS;

EPITAXIAL GROWTH;

EID: 70350633433     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.003358     Document Type: Article

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