Low-loss depressed cladding waveguide architecture is highly attractive for improving the laser performance of waveguide lasers. We report on the design and fabrication of the "ear-like" waveguide structures formed by a set of parallel tracks in neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG) crystal via femtosecond laser writing. The obtained "ear-like" waveguides are with more symmetric mode profiles and lower losses by systematically comparing the guiding properties of two kinds of normal cladding waveguide. Efficient waveguide lasers are realized based on the designed structure in both continuous wave and pulsed regimes. Combined the high-gain from cladding waveguide and special "ear-like" structure, a passively fundamentally Q-switched laser with the narrow pulse width and the high repetition rate has been obtained by using tin diselenide (SnSe) as saturable absorber.
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