Yb-doped gadolinium gallium garnet buried-channel waveguide laser operated at 1.025 /spl mu/m and room temperature

Author

Katoh, Y. ; Shimokozono, M. ; Sugimoto, Naozo ; Tate, A. ; Tanno, Motohiro ; Fukuda, Satoshi ; Ryuoh, T.

Author_Institution

Opto-Electron. Labs, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., Ibaraki, Japan

fYear

1996

fDate

2-7 June 1996

Firstpage

532

Lastpage

533

Abstract

Summary form only given. We report the room-temperature operation of an Yb:GdGG buried channel waveguide laser prepared on an yttrium-substituted GdGG substrate (YOG). Recently, much attention has been focused on Yb-doped solid-state lasers. This is due both to the favorable functions of Yb/sup 3+/ ions in many kinds of laser host materials and to the recent advances in InGaAs strained quantum well laser-diode-pumping sources. The lasing wavelength of Yb/sup 3+/ in a garnet host is around 1.03 /spl mu/m.

Keywords

gadolinium compounds; infrared sources; laser transitions; optical pumping; solid lasers; waveguide lasers; ytterbium; 1.025 mum; 1.30 mum; GdGG:Yb; GdGa5O12:Yb; InGaAs; InGaAs strained quantum well laser-diode-pumping sources; Yb-doped gadolinium gallium garnet buried-channel waveguide laser; Yb-doped solid-state lasers; Yb/sup 3+/ ions; Yb:GdGG buried channel waveguide laser; laser host materials; lasing wavelength; room temperature; yttrium-substituted GdGG substrate; Erbium; Fluorescence; Garnets; Glass; Laser modes; Optical waveguides; Pump lasers; Quantum well lasers; Waveguide lasers; Ytterbium;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-443-2

Type

conf

Filename

865020