A slab waveguide laser formed of glass‐clad LiNdP4O12

摘要

A 60‐μm‐thick and 0.5‐mm‐long LiNdP4O12 slab waveguide laser clad by sputtered SK12 glass was fabricated. Single TE0‐mode pulse and quasi‐cw laser oscillations at 1.047 μm were obtained by longitudinal pumping with a rhodamine 6G laser and an argon laser, respectively. The round‐trip waveguide loss was evaluated from the threshold pump pulse energy to be 0.035 for TE0‐mode oscillation.