| Autor: |
Krupke, William F., Beach, Raymond J., Kanz, V. Keith, Payne, Stephen A. |
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Optics Letters; December 2003, Vol. 28 Issue: 23 p2336-2338, 3p |
| Abstrakt: |
Population inversion of the ^2P_1/2 and ^2S_1/2 levels and continuous-wave, three-level laser oscillation at 795 nm on the D_1 transition of the rubidium atom has been demonstrated. Using a titanium sapphire laser as a pump source, we obtained a slope power efficiency of 54% relative to absorbed pump power, consistent with homogeneous broadening of the rubidium pump and laser transitions. The end-pumped rubidium laser performance was well described by use of literature spectroscopic and kinetic data in a model that takes into account ground-level depletion and a pump spectral bandwidth that is substantially larger than the collisionally broadened pump transition spectral width. |
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