Nd, Cr co-doped gadolinium gallium garnet laser waveguide structure formed by pulsed laser deposition

Author

Fukaya, S. ; Hasegawa, T. ; Ishida, N. ; Obara, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Keio Univ., Yokohama, Japan

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

Aug. 30 1999-Sept. 3 1999

Firstpage

680

Abstract

Self-Q-switched Nd lasers with Cr-doped garnet as a saturable absorber have been reported. Recently, self-Q-switching operation of Nd,Cr co-doped YAG bulk crystal, which has both functions of a gain medium and a saturable absorber, has been demonstrated by diode pumping. This is a monolithic Q-switched bulk laser. This advantage is applicable to a waveguide laser which has merits of optical confinement, low oscillation threshold, high slope efficiency and device integration capability. In this study, Nd,Cr co-doped gadolinium gallium garnet (GGG) waveguide structures have been fabricated by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) method. The concentrations of Nd and Cr in thin films were well controlled by changing the laser ablation fluence for Nd:GGG and Cr:GGG targets. And the formed films showed excellent characteristics of a gain medium and a saturable absorber.

Keywords

chromium; gadolinium compounds; garnets; neodymium; optical saturable absorption; pulsed laser deposition; solid lasers; waveguide lasers; GdGG:Nd,Cr; GdGa5O12:Nd,Cr; gadolinium gallium garnet laser waveguide structure; gain medium; monolithic Q-switched bulk laser; pulsed laser deposition; saturable absorber; waveguide laser; Chromium; Diodes; Garnets; Integrated optics; Laser ablation; Neodymium; Optical waveguides; Pulsed laser deposition; Pump lasers; Waveguide lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO/Pacific Rim '99. The Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul, South Korea

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5661-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.1999.817779

Filename

817779