Versatile large-mode-area femtosecond laserwritten Tm:ZBLAN glass chip lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 27503-27509

  Lancaster, D G ^a   Gross, S ^b   Fuerbach, A ^a   Ebendorff Heidepriem, H ^a   Monro, T M ^a   Withford, M J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT DEMONSTRATION; EXTERNAL CAVITY LASERS; FEMTOSECONDS; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; GLASS CHIPS; HIGH MODES; OPTICAL PROCESSING; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PLANAR CHIPS; PLANAR WAVEGUIDE LASERS; Q-SWITCHED PULSE; RARE EARTH DOPED; SINGLE-STEP; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; WAVEGUIDE LASERS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; THULIUM;

WAVEGUIDES;

ALUMINUM; BARIUM; FLUORIDE; GLASS; LANTHANIDE; LANTHANUM; SODIUM; THULIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY;

ALUMINUM; BARIUM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUORIDES; GLASS; LANTHANUM; LASERS; METALS, RARE EARTH; REFRACTOMETRY; SODIUM; THULIUM; ZIRCONIUM;

EID: 84870626124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.027503     Document Type: Article

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