Continuous wave laser operation in Nd: GGG depressed tubular cladding waveguides produced by inscription of femtosecond laser pulses

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 278-283

  Liu, Hongliang ^a   Jia, Yuechen ^a   Chen, Feng ^a   Vazquez de Aldana, Javier R ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVES; CONTINUOUS-WAVE LASER OPERATION; FEMTOSECOND (FS) LASER; FS-LASER; LASER OSCILLATIONS; LASER PERFORMANCE; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; OPTICAL PUMPS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; STRESS-INDUCED; TYPE II; WAVEGUIDE LASERS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LASER PULSES; NEODYMIUM; OPTICAL PUMPING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84874177449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.3.000278     Document Type: Article

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