70% slope efficiency from an ultrafast laser-written Nd:GdVO4 channel waveguide laser

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 24994-24999

  Tan, Yang ^a   Rodenas, Airan ^b   Chen, Feng ^a   Thomson, Robert R ^b   Kar, Ajoy K ^b   Jaque, Daniel ^c   Lu, Qingming ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; NEODYMIUM; PHOTOEXCITATION; PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES; PUMPING (LASER); ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE; HIGH EFFICIENCY; LASER PERFORMANCE; LOW PROPAGATION LOSS; ND:GDVO4; OPTICAL EXCITATIONS; QUANTUM DEFECTS; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; THRESHOLD PUMP POWER; ULTRAFAST LASER; WRITING SPEED;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 78649691923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.024994     Document Type: Article

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