Visible laser emission from a praseodymium-doped fluorozirconate guided-wave chip.

Title Visible laser emission from a praseodymium-doped fluorozirconate guided-wave chip.
Authors C. Khurmi; S. Thoday; T.M. Monro; G. Chen; D.G. Lancaster
Journal Opt Lett
DOI 10.1364/OL.42.003339
Abstract

We report visible continuous-wave laser emission at 636 nm from a praseodymium-doped fluorozirconate glass guided-wave chip laser. This ultra-fast laser inscribed gain chip is demonstrated to be a compact and integrated laser module. The laser module, pumped by 442 nm GaN laser diodes, generates >8??mW lasing output with a beam quality of Mxy2?1.15×1.1(±0.1). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first visible laser emission from a glass-based waveguide chip laser.

Citation C. Khurmi; S. Thoday; T.M. Monro; G. Chen; D.G. Lancaster.Visible laser emission from a praseodymium-doped fluorozirconate guided-wave chip.. Opt Lett. 2017;42(17):33393342. doi:10.1364/OL.42.003339

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