Lasing action at around 1.9 mu m from an ultrafast laser inscribed Tm-doped glass waveguide

F. Fusari; R. R. Thomson; G. Jose; F. M. Bain; A. A. Lagatsky; N. D. Psaila; A. K. Kar; A. Jha; W. Sibbett; C. T. A. Brown

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Lasing action at around 1.9 mu m from an ultrafast laser inscribed Tm-doped glass waveguide

F. Fusari, R. R. Thomson, G. Jose, F. M. Bain, A. A. Lagatsky, N. D. Psaila, A. K. Kar, A. Jha, W. Sibbett, C. T. A. Brown^*

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We report optical guiding and laser action at around 1:9 µm in a Tm3+-doped fluorogermanate glass waveguide fabricated using ultrafast laser inscription. A monolithic laser cavity was constructed by directly butt coupling dielectric mirrors to each facet of the 6:0mm long Tm3+-doped waveguide. When the waveguide was pumped by a Ti:sapphire laser tuned to 791nm, laser oscillation was achieved at around 1:91 µm. This waveguide laser exhibited a maximum slope efficiency of 6% and a maximum output power of 32mW when pumped with 620mW of incident laser power. © 2011 Optical Society of America.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1566-1568
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	36
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.36.001566
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2011

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