Preservation of fluorescence and Raman gain in the buried channel waveguides in neodymium-doped KGd(WO4)2 (NdiKGW) by femtosecond laser writing

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 930-934

  Liu, Xiaoyu ^a   Qu, Shiliang ^a   Tan, Yang ^b   Chen, Feng ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; FLUORESCENCE; NEODYMIUM; PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FEMTOSECOND LASER WRITING; FLUORESCENCE PROPERTIES; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; LOW REPETITION RATE; MICRO-RAMAN SPECTRA; PROFILE RECONSTRUCTION; PROPAGATION LOSS; WAVEGUIDE FORMATION;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 79951971457     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.000930     Document Type: Article

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