Title :
Pulsed laser deposition of thick multilayer garnet films for cladding-pumped planar waveguide laser devices
Author :
May-Smith, T.C. ; Grivas, C. ; Shepherd, David P. ; Darby, M. S K ; Eason, R.W.
Author_Institution :
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK
Abstract :
We report progress in the pulsed laser deposition of thick multilayer Nd/sup 3+/-doped garnet films to be used as high-numerical-aperture cladding-pumped planar waveguide laser devices.
Keywords :
garnets; neodymium; optical fabrication; optical multilayers; optical planar waveguides; optical pumping; pulsed laser deposition; solid lasers; waveguide lasers; GdGG:Nd; GdGa5O12:Nd; Nd/sup 3+/-doped garnet films; cladding-pumped laser; garnet films; high-numerical-aperture laser; planar waveguide laser; pulsed laser deposition; thick multilayer;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
