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Tunable coupled-cavity waveguide laser at room temperature in Nd-diffused Ti:LiNbO3

Tunable coupled-cavity waveguide laser at room temperature in Nd-diffused Ti:LiNbO3
Tunable coupled-cavity waveguide laser at room temperature in Nd-diffused Ti:LiNbO3
We report on a Y-junction channel waveguide laser, operating at room temperature, in Nd-diffused Ti:LiNbO3. Pumping was performed with a cw Ti:Al2O3 laser operating at 816 nm. With feedback provided only by the polished end faces of the device, a cw lasing threshold of ~39-mW launched pump power was obtained, with a slope efficiency of ~35%. Using 95% reflectivity mirrors at the waveguide ends, we reduced the lasing threshold to ~4 mW, with a slope efficiency of ~2.6%. Tuning of the lasing signal over a range of 2.3 nm around a center wavelength of 1092.7 nm was demonstrated, with a monolithically integrated phase modulator.
0146-9592
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Amin, J.
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Hempstead, M.
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Román, J.E.
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Wilkinson, J.S.
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Amin, J.
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Hempstead, M.
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Román, J.E.
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Wilkinson, J.S.
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Amin, J., Hempstead, M., Román, J.E. and Wilkinson, J.S. (1994) Tunable coupled-cavity waveguide laser at room temperature in Nd-diffused Ti:LiNbO3. Optics Letters, 19 (19), 1541-1543. (doi:10.1364/OL.19.001541).

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We report on a Y-junction channel waveguide laser, operating at room temperature, in Nd-diffused Ti:LiNbO3. Pumping was performed with a cw Ti:Al2O3 laser operating at 816 nm. With feedback provided only by the polished end faces of the device, a cw lasing threshold of ~39-mW launched pump power was obtained, with a slope efficiency of ~35%. Using 95% reflectivity mirrors at the waveguide ends, we reduced the lasing threshold to ~4 mW, with a slope efficiency of ~2.6%. Tuning of the lasing signal over a range of 2.3 nm around a center wavelength of 1092.7 nm was demonstrated, with a monolithically integrated phase modulator.

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Published date: 1994

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Local EPrints ID: 78245
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/78245
ISSN: 0146-9592
PURE UUID: bef93d2f-c6a1-412b-b38f-a4cf4818fe18
ORCID for J.S. Wilkinson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4712-1697

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Author: J. Amin
Author: M. Hempstead
Author: J.E. Román
Author: J.S. Wilkinson ORCID iD

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