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Depressed cladding, buried waveguide laser formed in a YAG:Nd^3+ crystal by femtosecond laser writing

Alexander Shestakov, I.Y. Khrushchev, John Mitchell

Optics Letters · 2005 · 252 citations · 6 references

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Abstract

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.

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