Low loss depressed cladding waveguide inscribed in YAG:Nd single crystal by femtosecond laser pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3832-3843

  Okhrimchuk, Andrey ^a,b   Mezentsev, Vladimir ^a   Shestakov, Alexander ^c   Bennion, Ian ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FIBER OPTICS RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

^c ELS Co   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); NEODYMIUM; PUMPING (LASER); STRESSES; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

1064 NM; DEPRESSED CLADDING; DOMINATING FACTORS; ELASTO-OPTICAL EFFECTS; ELLIPTICAL BEAMS; KEY ELEMENTS; LOW LOSS; MECHANICAL STRESS; MODE DISTRIBUTION; MULTIMODE LASER; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; PROPAGATION LOSS; WAVEGUIDE LASERS; WAVEGUIDE MODE; YAG;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84857296373     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.003832     Document Type: Article

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