Efficient KY1-x-yGdxLuy(WO 4)2:Tm3+ channel waveguide lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 5277-5282

  Van Dalfsen, K ^a   Aravazhi, S ^a   Geskus, D ^a   Worhoff K ^a   Pollnau, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES; PUMPING (LASER);

BEAM MILLING; CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE; CLADDING LAYER; CO-DOPED; DIELECTRIC MIRRORS; LASER EXPERIMENTS; LASER WAVELENGTH; MAXIMUM OUTPUT; OUT-COUPLING EFFICIENCY; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; UPPER LIMITS; WAVEGUIDE PROPAGATION;

MIRRORS;

EID: 79952595983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.005277     Document Type: Article

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