Highly efficient Yb:YAG channel waveguide laser written with a femtosecond-laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 16035-16041

  Siebenmorgen, Jörg ^a   Calmano, Thomas ^a   Petermann, Klaus ^a   Huber, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; YTTERBIUM;

CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE; FEMTOSECONDS; LASER OSCILLATIONS; LAUNCHED PUMP POWER; MATERIAL DAMAGES; OUTPUT POWER; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; STRESS-INDUCED; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER; WAVE-GUIDING; YAG; YB:YAG CRYSTAL;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 77954895262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.016035     Document Type: Article

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