Continuous wave laser generation in proton implanted Nd:GGG planar waveguides

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 3578-3581

  Ren, Yingying ^a   Dong, Ningning ^a   Tan, Yang ^a   Guan, Jing ^a   Chen, Feng ^a   Lu, Qingming ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

ion implantation; Nd:GGG crystal1; optical waveguides 1; waveguide lasers

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED PUMP POWER; LASER OPERATIONS; LASER THRESHOLD; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; ND:GGG CRYSTAL1; OPTICAL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PROTON IMPLANTED; PUMP SOURCES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SINGLE MODE; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; WAVEGUIDE LASERS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ION IMPLANTATION; NEODYMIUM; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; PROTONS;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 78650006420     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2010.2090943     Document Type: Article

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