A. Konate et al., LASER-DIODE PUMPING OF A COLOR-CENTER LASER WITH EMISSION IN THE 1.5 MU-M WAVELENGTH DOMAIN, Radiation effects and defects in solids, 136(1-4), 1995, pp. 971-974
We describe a colour centre laser pumped by a laser diode. The pumping
is at 0.96 mu m in the absorption band of the Tl-0(1) centre in KCl:T
l+. The laser emission is tunable around 1.5 mu m with an output power
of 17 mW. We have also obtained with the same device, 15 mW with (F-2
(+))(H) centres in NaCl:OH-.