Continuous-wave Nd-doped polymer lasers

Grivas, Christos and Yang, Jing and Diemeer, Mart B.J. and Driessen, Alfred and Pollnau, Markus (2010) Continuous-wave Nd-doped polymer lasers. Optics Letters, 35 (12). pp. 1983-1985. ISSN 0146-9592

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Abstract:	Continuous-wave laser operation at 1060.2 nm was demonstrated in polymer channel waveguides doped with a Nd complex above an absorbed pump threshold of 50 mW. The highest slope efficiency of 2.15% was obtained with 5% outcoupling, resulting in a maximum output power of 0.98 mW. Lasing was also achieved on the quasi-three-level 878 nm transition above a threshold of 74.5 mW. A slope efficiency of 0.35% and an output power of 190 μm were obtained with 2.2% outcoupling. Long-term, stable cw laser operation over at least 2 h was demonstrated, indicating the durability of the polymer gain medium.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2010 Optical Society of America
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Integrated Optical MicroSystems (IOMS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/71713
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.35.001983
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