LASER OPERATION OF AN ND-GD3GA5O12 THIN-FILM OPTICAL WAVE-GUIDE FABRICATED BY PULSED-LASER DEPOSITION

Authors
GILL DS ANDERSON AA EASON RW WARBURTON TJ SHEPHERD DP
Citation
Ds. Gill et al., LASER OPERATION OF AN ND-GD3GA5O12 THIN-FILM OPTICAL WAVE-GUIDE FABRICATED BY PULSED-LASER DEPOSITION, Applied physics letters, 69(1), 1996, pp. 10-12
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
Journal title
Applied physics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036951
Volume
69
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
10 - 12
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6951(1996)69:1<10:LOOANT>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
We report the laser operation of a thin-film waveguide structure grown by the pulsed laser deposition technique. A 2.7-mu m-thick crystallin e film of neodymium doped Gd3Ga5O12 (Nd:GGG) lases at a wavelength cen tered at 1.06 mu m when pumped by a Ti:sapphire laser at 808 nm. (C) 1 996 American Institute of Physics.