Microstructured KY(WO4)2:Gd3+, Lu 3+, Yb3+ channel waveguide laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 8853-8858

  Geskus, D ^a   Aravazhi, S ^a   Grivas, C ^a,b   Worhoff K ^a   Pollnau, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES; PUMPS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; YTTERBIUM;

BEAM MILLING; CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE; EPITAXIALLY GROWN; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX CONTRASTS; LAUNCHED PUMP POWER; MW OUTPUT; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; THIN LAYERS;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 77952074959     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.008853     Document Type: Article

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