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Vol. 6, Issue 10, 971 (2018)

Passively Q-switched femtosecond-laser-written thulium waveguide laser based on evanescent field interaction with carbon nanotubes

Esrom Kifle¹, Pavel Loiko², Javier Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana³, Carolina Romero³..., Airán Ródenas^1,4, Sun Yung Choi⁵, Ji Eun Bae⁵, Fabian Rotermund⁵, Viktor Zakharov², Andrey Veniaminov², Magdalena Aguiló¹, Francesc Díaz¹, Uwe Griebner⁶, Valentin Petrov⁶ and Xavier Mateos^1,*|Show fewer author(s)

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¹Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Departament Química Física i Inorgànica, Física i Cristal·lografia de Materials i Nanomaterials (FiCMA-FiCNA)-EMaS, Campus Sescelades, E-43007 Tarragona, Spain

²ITMO University, 49 Kronverkskiy pr., 197101 St. Petersburg, Russia

³Aplicaciones del Láser y Fotónica, University of Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain

⁴Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IFN-CNR), Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milano, Italy

⁵Department of Physics, KAIST, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, 34141 Daejeon, South Korea

⁶Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Max-Born-Str. 2a, D-12489 Berlin, Germany

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Esrom Kifle, Pavel Loiko, Javier Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana, Carolina Romero, Airán Ródenas, Sun Yung Choi, Ji Eun Bae, Fabian Rotermund, Viktor Zakharov, Andrey Veniaminov, Magdalena Aguiló, Francesc Díaz, Uwe Griebner, Valentin Petrov, Xavier Mateos, "Passively Q-switched femtosecond-laser-written thulium waveguide laser based on evanescent field interaction with carbon nanotubes," Photonics Res. 6, 971 (2018) Copy Citation Text

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Esrom Kifle, Pavel Loiko, Javier Rodríguez Vázquez de Aldana, Carolina Romero, Airán Ródenas, Sun Yung Choi, Ji Eun Bae, Fabian Rotermund, Viktor Zakharov, Andrey Veniaminov, Magdalena Aguiló, Francesc Díaz, Uwe Griebner, Valentin Petrov, Xavier Mateos, "Passively Q-switched femtosecond-laser-written thulium waveguide laser based on evanescent field interaction with carbon nanotubes," Photonics Res. 6, 971 (2018)

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