Highly efficient Yb3+-doped channel waveguide laser at 981 nm.

Channel waveguide lasers operating at 981 nm are demonstrated in KY(1-x-y)Gd(x)Lu(y)(WO4)2:Yb3+ waveguides grown by liquid phase epitaxy onto undoped KY(WO4)2 substrates and microstructured by Ar+ beam etching. Under pumping at 934 nm of samples with different waveguide geometry and outcoupling degree, a record-high slope efficiency of 76% versus absorbed pump power and a record-high output power of 650 mW for rare-earth-ion-doped microstructured channel waveguide lasers is achieved. The laser performance is compared to that of the same devices when pumping at 981 nm and lasing near 1025 nm.

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