Ridge waveguide lasers in Nd:GGG crystals produced by swift carbon ion irradiation and femtosecond laser ablation

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 9763-9768

  Jia, Yuechen ^a   Dong, Ningning ^a   Chen, Feng ^a   De Aldana, Javier R Vázquez ^b   Akhmadaliev, Sh ^c   Zhou, Shengqiang ^c  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; IRRADIATION; LASER ABLATION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PUMPING; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

OPTICAL PUMPS; PUMP THRESHOLD; RIDGE WAVEGUIDE LASERS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES;

NEODYMIUM;

CARBON; HEAVY ION;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; MATERIALS; REFRACTOMETRY;

CARBON; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEAVY IONS; LASERS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 84861141381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.009763     Document Type: Article

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