Abstract

Depressed cladding waveguides are fabricated in Pr:LiYF₄ (YLF) crystal by femtosecond laser inscription following a helical scheme. With the optimized parameters, the propagation loss of the waveguide is around 0.12 dB/cm for multimode guiding. Under optical pumping with InGaN laser diodes at 444 nm, efficient waveguide lasers in the orange around 604 nm (π-polarized) are achieved with minimum lasing threshold of 119.8 mW, maximum slope efficiency of 16.6%, and maximum output power of 120.6 mW. Benefiting from their optimized performances, the waveguides produced in this work are promising for applications as compact orange laser sources.

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