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Thulium-doped yttria planar waveguide laser grown by pulsed laser deposition

Thulium-doped yttria planar waveguide laser grown by pulsed laser deposition
Thulium-doped yttria planar waveguide laser grown by pulsed laser deposition
Lasers operating in the 2 micron wavelength region are of particular interest for various applications in remote sensing/LIDAR, materials processing, and medical treatments. Thulium-doped media have several attractive features for generating light in this wavelength band, including a broad emission bandwidth, long-lived metastable states, absorption bands matched to high-power 0.8 mm diode-pump sources coupled with the potential for high quantum-efficiency due to a 2-for-1 cross-relaxation process. The sesquioxide crystal family is of considerable interest as a potential host due to their excellent thermo-optic characteristics and spectroscopic properties. A key challenge for this host material is its high-temperature growth requirements (some in excess of 2500 K for bulk crystals); as such there has been limited success in fabricating these crystals commercially. Here we report the first growth and lasing results (to the best of our knowledge) of a crystalline Tm:Y2O3 waveguide, fabricated via pulsed laser deposition (PLD).
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Szela, Jakub
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Sloyan, K.
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Parsonage, Tina
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Szela, Jakub, Sloyan, K., Parsonage, Tina, Mackenzie, J.I. and Eason, R.W. (2013) Thulium-doped yttria planar waveguide laser grown by pulsed laser deposition. 2013 CLEO-Europe/IQEC, Munich, Germany. 12 - 16 May 2013. (doi:10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6801312).

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Abstract

Lasers operating in the 2 micron wavelength region are of particular interest for various applications in remote sensing/LIDAR, materials processing, and medical treatments. Thulium-doped media have several attractive features for generating light in this wavelength band, including a broad emission bandwidth, long-lived metastable states, absorption bands matched to high-power 0.8 mm diode-pump sources coupled with the potential for high quantum-efficiency due to a 2-for-1 cross-relaxation process. The sesquioxide crystal family is of considerable interest as a potential host due to their excellent thermo-optic characteristics and spectroscopic properties. A key challenge for this host material is its high-temperature growth requirements (some in excess of 2500 K for bulk crystals); as such there has been limited success in fabricating these crystals commercially. Here we report the first growth and lasing results (to the best of our knowledge) of a crystalline Tm:Y2O3 waveguide, fabricated via pulsed laser deposition (PLD).

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e-pub ahead of print date: 2013
Venue - Dates: 2013 CLEO-Europe/IQEC, Munich, Germany, 2013-05-12 - 2013-05-16
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 363222
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/363222
ISBN: 978-1-4799-0594-2
PURE UUID: 21be2c81-c947-4d8e-8677-575894be4579
ORCID for J.I. Mackenzie: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3355-6051
ORCID for R.W. Eason: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9704-2204

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Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:07

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Author: Jakub Szela
Author: K. Sloyan
Author: Tina Parsonage
Author: J.I. Mackenzie ORCID iD
Author: R.W. Eason ORCID iD

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