Abstract
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 |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1566-1568 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Optics Letters |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 9 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 May 2011 |
Keywords
- WRITTEN
- FEMTOSECOND-LASER