Opto-Electronic Advances, Volume. 4, Issue 2, 200005-1(2021)

Circular cladding waveguides in Pr:YAG fabricated by femtosecond laser inscription: Raman, luminescence properties and guiding performance

Quanxin Yang1... Hongliang Liu1,2,5,*, Shan He1, Qingyu Tian4, Bin Xu4, and Pengfei Wu13 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
  • 2Tianjin Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Sensor and Sensing Network Technology, Tianjin 300350, China
  • 3Tianjin Key Laboratory of Micro-scale Optical Information Science and Technology, Tianjin 300350, China
  • 4Department of Electronic Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
  • 5State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China.
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    Quanxin Yang, Hongliang Liu, Shan He, Qingyu Tian, Bin Xu, Pengfei Wu. Circular cladding waveguides in Pr:YAG fabricated by femtosecond laser inscription: Raman, luminescence properties and guiding performance[J]. Opto-Electronic Advances, 2021, 4(2): 200005-1

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    Category: Original Article

    Received: Feb. 27, 2020

    Accepted: Apr. 16, 2020

    Published Online: May. 20, 2021

    The Author Email: Liu Hongliang (drliuhl@nankai.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.29026/oea.2021.200005

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