Channel waveguide lasers in Nd:LGS crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 6503-6508

  Ren, Yingying ^a   Vázquez De Aldana, Javier R ^b   Chen, Feng ^a   Zhang, Huaijin ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PUMPING; PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRAFAST LASERS; WAVEGUIDES;

CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE; CROSS-SECTIONAL SHAPE; DEPRESSED CLADDING; LOW REFRACTIVE INDEX; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; OPTICAL CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; TUBULAR STRUCTURES;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 84875181680     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.006503     Document Type: Article

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