Lasers based on planar waveguides have recently generated interest for use as scalable high-average-power sources, Here we study the thermal diffusion of Nd/sub 3//sup +/ and Gd/sub 3//sup +/ ions in YVO/sub 4/ in order to obtain the essential diffusion characteristics necessary to calculate the conditions required for fabrication of waveguides suitable for laser action at 1 /spl mu/m. Nd/sub 3//sup +/ is studied both for localised doping as the active laser ion and as a potential refractive index modifier. We also choose to study Gd/sub 3//sup +/ diffusion as an index modifier in order to give the potential for separate control of the index and gain distributions.


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    Title :

    Neodymium and gadolinium diffusion in yttrium vanadate


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    Publication date :

    2001-01-01


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    164622 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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