Continuous-wave and Q-switched Tm-doped KY(WO4)2 planar waveguide laser at 1.84 μm

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1449-1454

  Bolaños, Western ^a   Carvajal, Joan J ^a   Mateos, Xavier ^a   Cantelar, Eugenio ^b   Lifante, Ginés ^b   Griebner, Uwe ^c   Petrov, Valentin ^c   Panyutin, Vladimir L ^c   Murugan, Ganapathy S ^d   Wilkinson, James S ^d   Aguiló, Magdalena ^a   Díaz, Francesc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); PULSE REPETITION RATE; Q SWITCHING; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; WAVEGUIDES;

CO-DOPED; CONTINUOUS WAVE; HIGH QUALITY; PLANAR WAVEGUIDE LASERS; PULSE ENERGIES; Q-SWITCHED; REPETITION RATE; SPECTRAL RANGE;

PLANAR WAVEGUIDES;

OXIDE; THULIUM; TUNGSTEN; TUNGSTEN OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; OXIDES; REFRACTOMETRY; THULIUM; TUNGSTEN;

EID: 78751547587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.001449     Document Type: Article

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