An ion-exchanged thulium-doped germanate glass channel waveguide laser operating near 1.9 micron
An ion-exchanged thulium-doped germanate glass channel waveguide laser operating near 1.9 micron
Solid-state lasers operating in the eye-safe region near 2 micron are of considerable interest owing to various application areas such as remote sensing, spectroscopy and LIDAR. Thulium-based gain media have several attractive features including a broad emission bandwidth, a broad absorption band near 800 nm that can be diode pumped and the possibility of obtaining a quantum efficiency of up to 200% due to the process of cross-relaxation. Guided-wave devices can offer additional advantages of compactness and integration, as well as lower thresholds and high slope efficiencies if low propagation losses can be obtained. Such devices, when combined with integrated saturable absorber elements, can also be passively modelocked to generate femtosecond pulses with multi-GHz repetition rates.
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Pradeesh, Kannan, Choudhary, Amol, Mackenzie, J.I., Feng, X. and Shepherd, D.P.
(2013)
An ion-exchanged thulium-doped germanate glass channel waveguide laser operating near 1.9 micron.
2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/IQEC) and International Quantum Electronics Conference, , Munich, Germany.
12 - 16 May 2013.
1 pp
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(doi:10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6801311).
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Solid-state lasers operating in the eye-safe region near 2 micron are of considerable interest owing to various application areas such as remote sensing, spectroscopy and LIDAR. Thulium-based gain media have several attractive features including a broad emission bandwidth, a broad absorption band near 800 nm that can be diode pumped and the possibility of obtaining a quantum efficiency of up to 200% due to the process of cross-relaxation. Guided-wave devices can offer additional advantages of compactness and integration, as well as lower thresholds and high slope efficiencies if low propagation losses can be obtained. Such devices, when combined with integrated saturable absorber elements, can also be passively modelocked to generate femtosecond pulses with multi-GHz repetition rates.
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2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/IQEC) and International Quantum Electronics Conference, , Munich, Germany, 2013-05-12 - 2013-05-16
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