Tunable continuous-wave operation of a Cr3+,Li+:Mg2SiO4 laser.

Autor: Lebedev VF; A. M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia., Tenyakov SY, Gaister AV, Podstavkin AS, Shestakov AV, Sorokin VN
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Optics letters [Opt Lett] 2006 May 15; Vol. 31 (10), pp. 1438-40.
DOI: 10.1364/ol.31.001438
Abstrakt: Room-temperature tunable cw laser oscillation of Cr3+ ions in forsterite crystals (Mg2SiO4) codoped with chromium and lithium has been demonstrated, for the first time to the authors' knowledge, in pumping a crystal with a Ti:sapphire laser into the first excited level of Cr3+ ions (4A2-4T2 transition). The laser is smoothly tunable in the region of 1095-1170 nm. A slope efficiency as great as 4.4% has been achieved.
Databáze: MEDLINE