Depressed cladding, buried waveguide laser formed in a YAG:Nd3+ crystal by femtosecond laser writing.
Depressed cladding waveguides have been formed in laser crystals by a tightly focused beam of a femtosecond laser. A laser based on a depressed cladding waveguide in a neodymium-doped YAG crystal has been demonstrated for what is believed to be the first time.
Okhrimchuk
A G
AG
Elements of Laser Systems Corporation, 3 Vvedensky Street, Moscow 117342, Russia. okhrim@fo.gpi.ru
Shestakov
A V
AV
Khrushchev
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Mitchell
J
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