Rare-earth-doped planar waveguide lasers
Rare-earth-doped planar waveguide lasers
Research into active, rare-earth-doped planar waveguides is rapidly gathering pace. As with rare-earth-doped optical fibres, the small dimension of the waveguide region allows high gain to be achieved with very modest pump powers. Compared with fibres, the planar geometry potentially offers a number of additional benefits, such as a much higher degree of integration with access to properties available in crystals but not in glass, such as the possibilities of modulation and frequency conversion where the host medium is a nonlinear crystal. A wide variety of host media, in crystals and glasses is currently under investigation, along with a wide variety of techniques for waveguide fabrication and processing. A broad survey of this activity will be given, covering recent results and indicating some future directions.
Hanna, D.C.
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1993
Hanna, D.C.
3da5a5b4-71c2-4441-bb67-21f0d28a187d
Hanna, D.C.
(1993)
Rare-earth-doped planar waveguide lasers.
European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO '93), Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
18 - 22 Apr 1993.
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Research into active, rare-earth-doped planar waveguides is rapidly gathering pace. As with rare-earth-doped optical fibres, the small dimension of the waveguide region allows high gain to be achieved with very modest pump powers. Compared with fibres, the planar geometry potentially offers a number of additional benefits, such as a much higher degree of integration with access to properties available in crystals but not in glass, such as the possibilities of modulation and frequency conversion where the host medium is a nonlinear crystal. A wide variety of host media, in crystals and glasses is currently under investigation, along with a wide variety of techniques for waveguide fabrication and processing. A broad survey of this activity will be given, covering recent results and indicating some future directions.
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Published date: 1993
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European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO '93), Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1993-04-18 - 1993-04-22
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Physics & Astronomy
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/77314
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