High-power, broadly tunable, and low-quantum-defect KGd 1-xLux(WO4)2:Yb3+ channel waveguide lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 26107-26112

  Geskus, Dimitri ^a   Aravazhi, Shanmugam ^a   Wörhoff, Kerstin ^a   Pollnau, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES; PUMPS; YTTERBIUM;

CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE; CONTINUOUS WAVES; GRATING TUNING; HIGH-POWER; LASER OPERATIONS; LAUNCHED PUMP POWER; MICROSTRUCTURED; OUTPUT COUPLING; QUANTUM DEFECTS; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

PUMPING (LASER);

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; SOLID STATE LASER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE;

EID: 78650053299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.026107     Document Type: Article

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