Continuous wave channel waveguide lasers in Nd:LuVO4 fabricated by direct femtosecond laser writing

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1969-1974

  Ren, Yingying ^a,b   Dong, Ningning ^a   Macdonald, John ^b   Chen, Feng ^a   Zhang, Huaijin ^a   Kar, Ajoy K ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LASER EXCITATION; NEODYMIUM; PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES; PUMPING (LASER); ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVEGUIDES;

ABSORBED PUMP POWER; BULK MATERIALS; BURIED CHANNELS; CONTINUOUS WAVE; FEMTOSECOND LASER WRITING; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; WAVEGUIDE CORE;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; MATERIALS; MOLECULAR IMPRINTING; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MOLECULAR IMPRINTING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84863027674     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.001969     Document Type: Article

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