Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 20, Issue 12, 122201(2022)

Laser emission from low-loss cladding waveguides in Pr:YLF by femtosecond laser helical inscription Editors' Pick

Yingying Ren1、*, Zemeng Cui1, Lifei Sun1, Chao Wang1, Hongliang Liu2, and Yangjian Cai1,3、**
Author Affiliations
  • 1Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulations and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Device, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Optical Information Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
  • 3School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
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    Yingying Ren, Zemeng Cui, Lifei Sun, Chao Wang, Hongliang Liu, Yangjian Cai. Laser emission from low-loss cladding waveguides in Pr:YLF by femtosecond laser helical inscription[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2022, 20(12): 122201

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    Category: Optical Design and Fabrication

    Received: Apr. 27, 2022

    Accepted: Jul. 13, 2022

    Posted: Jul. 15, 2022

    Published Online: Aug. 31, 2022

    The Author Email: Yingying Ren (ryywly@sdnu.edu.cn), Yangjian Cai (yangjiancai@sdnu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/COL202220.122201

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