Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 19, Issue 8, 081301(2021)

Near-infrared lasing and tunable upconversion from femtosecond laser inscribed Nd,Gd:CaF2 waveguides Editors' Pick

Ruonan Li1, Lifei Sun1, Yangjian Cai1、*, Yingying Ren1、**, Hongliang Liu2, Mark D. Mackenzie3, and Ajoy K. Kar3
Author Affiliations
  • 1Center of Light Manipulations and Applications & Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Device, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
  • 2Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China
  • 3Institute of Photonics and Quantum Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK
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    Ruonan Li, Lifei Sun, Yangjian Cai, Yingying Ren, Hongliang Liu, Mark D. Mackenzie, Ajoy K. Kar, "Near-infrared lasing and tunable upconversion from femtosecond laser inscribed Nd,Gd:CaF2 waveguides," Chin. Opt. Lett. 19, 081301 (2021)

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    Paper Information

    Category: Integrated Optics

    Received: Oct. 5, 2020

    Accepted: Dec. 30, 2020

    Published Online: Apr. 27, 2021

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

    DOI:10.3788/COL202119.081301

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