Femtosecond laser inscribed cladding waveguides in Nd:YAG ceramics: Fabrication, fluorescence imaging and laser performance

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 18620-18629

  Liu, Hongliang ^a   Jia, Yuechen ^a   De Aldana, Javier Rodríguez Vázquez ^b   Jaque, Daniel ^c   Chen, Feng ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; FABRICATION; FLUORESCENCE; NEODYMIUM; OPTICAL PUMPING; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVEGUIDES; YTTRIUM;

CONFOCAL FLUORESCENCE; CONTINUOUS WAVE; DEPRESSED CLADDING; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FULL CONTROL; HIGH CONTRAST; INTEGRATED LASER; LASER OSCILLATIONS; LASER PERFORMANCE; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; ND:YAG CERAMIC; NEODYMIUM DOPED YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET; OPTICAL PUMPS; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; WAVEGUIDE LASERS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

ARTICLE; CERAMICS; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; SOLID STATE LASER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

CERAMICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84865592389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.018620     Document Type: Article

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