Channel waveguide lasers in Nd:GGG crystals fabricated by femtosecond laser inscription

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 12503-12508

  Zhang, Chao ^a   Dong, Ningning ^a   Yang, Jin ^a   Chen, Feng ^a   De Aldana, Javier R Vázquez ^b   Lu, Qingming ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; CRYSTALS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; NEODYMIUM; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTOEXCITATION; PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVEGUIDES;

BURIED CHANNELS; CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE; FEMTO-SECOND LASER; PROPAGATION LOSS; PUMP THRESHOLD; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

NEODYMIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; SOLID STATE LASER; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEODYMIUM; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 79959398680     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.012503     Document Type: Article

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