Ultrafast laser inscribed Yb:KGd(WO4)2 and Yb:KY(WO4)2 channel waveguide lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 22417-22422

  Bain, F M ^a   Lagatsky, A A ^a   Thomson, R R ^b   Psaila, N D ^b   Kuleshov, N V ^c   Kar, A K ^b   Sibbett, W ^a   Brown, C T A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BELARUSIAN NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES; ULTRAFAST LASERS; WAVEGUIDES; YTTERBIUM;

CAVITY CHANNELS; CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE; DIODE-PUMPED; LASER ACTION; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; PROPAGATION LOSS; WAVEGUIDE LASERS; WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE;

PUMPING (LASER);

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLID STATE LASER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MINIATURIZATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 72049086986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.022417     Document Type: Article

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