DocumentCode
1871657
Title
Diffusion bonded Yb-YAG rectangular waveguide laser
Author
Griebner, Uwe ; Schonnagel, H. ; Huschke, Joerg
Author_Institution
Max-Born-Inst. fur Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Berlin, Germany
fYear
1999
fDate
28-28 May 1999
Firstpage
363
Lastpage
364
Abstract
Summary form only given. We report laser performance of an end pumped 100 /spl mu/m Yb:YAG rectangular waveguide. This configuration offers an excellent confinement of the pump field achieved by waveguiding of the slow axis of the diode pump and nonguiding of the fast axis.
Keywords
bonds (chemical); diffusion; optical planar waveguides; optical pumping; rectangular waveguides; solid lasers; waveguide lasers; ytterbium; 100 mum; YAG:Yb; YAl5O12:Yb; Yb-YAG rectangular waveguide laser; Yb:YAG rectangular waveguide; diffusion bonded; diode pump; end pumped; fast axis nonguiding; laser performance; pump field confinement; slow axis; waveguiding; Diffusion bonding; Laser excitation; Molecular beam epitaxial growth; Optical device fabrication; Optical waveguides; Propagation losses; Pump lasers; Rectangular waveguides; Transistors; Waveguide lasers;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO '99. Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN
1-55752-595-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CLEO.1999.834310
Filename
834310
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