An 11.5 W Yb:YAG planar waveguide laser fabricated via pulsed laser deposition
- Submitting institution
-
University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 20333546
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
-
10.1364/OME.6.000091
- Title of journal
- Optical Materials Express
- Article number
- -
- First page
- 91
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2159-3930
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
-
-
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
6
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Featuring in OSA Publishing’s "Spotlight on Optics" (Dec-15), we reported the highest-efficiency (70%-slope) and step change in PLD-grown waveguide-laser performance. A novel laser-manufacturing technique itself, the work underpins progress towards a new generation of laser amplifier. As a key output of EPSRC sponsored research (EP/N018281/1), supported by partner companies Fianium Ltd, Rofin-Sinar UK, and Elforlight, it helped secure further backing from NASA ($20k) developing similar garnet waveguides, EPSRC via a platform grant (EP/P027644/1) (£1.7M), and European H2020 MSCA-ITN (813159) (€4M) funding. This research led to invited talks at the Stuttgart Laser Forum (Stuttgart, 2016) and OPIC/PLD2018 (Yokohama, 2018).
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -
