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BULLETIN of the POLISH ACADEMY of SCIENCES: TECHNICAL SCIENCES
Volume 53, Issue 2, June 2005
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Investigation and modelling of rare-earth activated waveguide structures

W. WOLINSKI, M. MALINOWSKI, A. MOSSAKOWSKA-WYSZYNSKA, R. PIRAMIDOWICZ and P. SZCZEPANSKI
 
In this paper the overview of the recent study on the rare-earth activated waveguides performed in the Optoelectronic Department of IMiO is presented. We reported on the development of rare earth-doped fluorozirconate (ZBLAN) glass fibers that allow a construction of a new family of visible and ultraviolet fiber lasers pumped by upconversion. Especially the performance of holmium devices is presented. The properties of laser planar waveguides obtained by the LPE process and the growth conditions of rare earths doped YAG layers are presented. In this paper we present also the theoretical study of the nonlinear operation of planar waveguide laser, as an example the microdisk Nd:YAG structure is discussed. We derived an approximate formula which relates the small signal gain in the Nd:YAG active medium and the laser characteristics, obtained for whispering-gallery modes and radial modes, to the output power and real parameters of the laser structure 
 
Keywords:

waveguide lasers, laser materials, spectroscopy, upconversion, rare-earth ions

 
 
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