Author, as appears in the article.: Kifle, Esrom; Loiko, Pavel; Vazquez de Aldana, Javier Rodriguez; Romero, Carolina; Rodenas, Airan; Choi, Sun Yung; Bae, Ji Eun; Rotermund, Fabian; Zakharov, Viktor; Veniaminov, Andrey; Aguilo, Magdalena; Diaz, Francesc; Griebner, Uwe; Petrov, Valentin; Mateos, Xavier
Department: Química Física i Inorgànica
URV's Author/s: Aguiló Díaz, Magdalena / Díaz Castrillón, Fernanda / Díaz González, Francisco Manuel / Mateos Ferré, Xavier / RODENAS SEGUI, AIRAN / ROMERO TRIS, CRISTINA
Keywords: Affordable and clean energy
Abstract: © 2018 Chinese Laser Press. Surface channel waveguides (WGs) were fabricated in a monoclinic Tm3:KLu WO4 2 crystal by femtosecond direct laser writing (fs-DLW). The WGs consisted of a half-ring cladding with diameters of 50 and 60 μm located just beneath the crystal surface. They were characterized by confocal laser microscopy and μ-Raman spectroscopy, indicating a reduced crystallinity and stress-induced birefringence of the WG cladding. In continuous-wave (CW) mode, under Ti:sapphire laser pumping at 802 nm, the maximum output power reached 171.1 mW at 1847.4 nm, corresponding to a slope efficiency η of 37.8% for the 60 μm diameter WG. The WG propagation loss was 0.7 0.3 dB∕cm. The top surface of the WGs was spin-coated by a polymethyl methacrylate film containing randomly oriented (spaghetti-like) arc-discharge single-walled carbon nanotubes serving as a saturable absorber based on evanescent field coupling. Stable passively Q-switched (PQS) operation was achieved. The PQS 60 μm diameter WG laser generated a record output power of 150 mW at 1846.8 nm with η 34.6%. The conversion efficiency with respect to the CW mode was 87.6%. The best pulse characteristics (energy/duration) were 105.6 nJ/98 ns at a repetition rate of 1.42 MHz.
Thematic Areas: Optics Electronic, optical and magnetic materials Atomic and molecular physics, and optics
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 23279125
Author's mail: fernanda.diaz@estudiants.urv.cat magdalena.aguilo@urv.cat xavier.mateos@urv.cat f.diaz@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0001-6130-9579 0000-0003-1940-1990 0000-0003-4581-4967
Last page: 980
Record's date: 2024-11-16
Journal volume: 6
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.osapublishing.org/prj/abstract.cfm?uri=prj-6-10-971
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Photonics Research. 6 (10): 971-980
APA: Kifle, Esrom; Loiko, Pavel; Vazquez de Aldana, Javier Rodriguez; Romero, Carolina; Rodenas, Airan; Choi, Sun Yung; Bae, Ji Eun; Rotermund, Fabian; Zak (2018). Passively Q-switched femtosecond-laser-written thulium waveguide laser based on evanescent field interaction with carbon nanotubes. Photonics Research, 6(10), 971-980. DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.6.000971
Article's DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.6.000971
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2018
First page: 971
Publication Type: Journal Publications