High slope efficiency and high refractive index change in direct-written Yb-doped waveguide lasers with depressed claddings

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 17413-17420

  Palmer, Guido ^a,b   Gross, Simon ^a   Fuerbach, Alexander ^a   Lancaster, David G ^c   Withford, Michael J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b EUROPEAN XFEL GMBH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEGUIDES;

DEPRESSED CLADDING; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; HIGH SLOPE EFFICIENCY; LASER PERFORMANCE; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; NEGATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; SLOPE EFFICIENCIES; WAVEGUIDE LASERS;

YTTERBIUM;

ARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LASER; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES;

ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84880560956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.017413     Document Type: Article

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