Continuous wave ridge waveguide lasers in femtosecond laser micromachined ion irradiated Nd:YAG single crystals

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 657-662

  Jia, Yuechen ^a   Dong, Ningning ^a   Chen, Feng ^a   de Aldana, Javier R Vázquez ^b   Akhmadaliev, Shavkat ^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; FEMTOSECOND LASER MICROMACHINING; LASING THRESHOLD; MICROMACHINED; MICROPHOTOLUMINESCENCE; RIDGE WAVEGUIDE LASERS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE; WAVEGUIDE SYSTEMS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; NEODYMIUM; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 84862128075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.000657     Document Type: Article

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