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Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 10, 971(2018)

Passively Q-switched femtosecond-laser-written thulium waveguide laser based on evanescent field interaction with carbon nanotubes

Esrom Kifle1, Pavel Loiko2, Javier Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana3, Carolina Romero3, Airán Ródenas1,4, Sun Yung Choi5, Ji Eun Bae5, Fabian Rotermund5, Viktor Zakharov2, Andrey Veniaminov2, Magdalena Aguiló1, Francesc Díaz1, Uwe Griebner6, Valentin Petrov6, and Xavier Mateos1、*
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  • 1Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Departament Química Física i Inorgànica, Física i Cristal·lografia de Materials i Nanomaterials (FiCMA-FiCNA)-EMaS, Campus Sescelades, E-43007 Tarragona, Spain
  • 2ITMO University, 49 Kronverkskiy pr., 197101 St. Petersburg, Russia
  • 3Aplicaciones del Láser y Fotónica, University of Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
  • 4Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IFN-CNR), Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
  • 5Department of Physics, KAIST, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, 34141 Daejeon, South Korea
  • 6Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Max-Born-Str. 2a, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
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    Esrom Kifle, Pavel Loiko, Javier Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana, Carolina Romero, Airán Ródenas, Sun Yung Choi, Ji Eun Bae, Fabian Rotermund, Viktor Zakharov, Andrey Veniaminov, Magdalena Aguiló, Francesc Díaz, Uwe Griebner, Valentin Petrov, Xavier Mateos, "Passively Q-switched femtosecond-laser-written thulium waveguide laser based on evanescent field interaction with carbon nanotubes," Photonics Res. 6, 971 (2018)

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    Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

    Received: Jun. 29, 2018

    Accepted: Jul. 17, 2018

    Published Online: Sep. 25, 2018

    The Author Email: Xavier Mateos (xavier.mateos@urv.cat)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000971

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