EFFICIENT CONTINUOUS WAVE-LASER EMISSION OF PR-3-DOPED FLUORIDES AT ROOM-TEMPERATURE()

Authors
SANDROCK T DANGER T HEUMANN E HUBER G CHAI BHT
Citation
T. Sandrock et al., EFFICIENT CONTINUOUS WAVE-LASER EMISSION OF PR-3-DOPED FLUORIDES AT ROOM-TEMPERATURE(), Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics, 58(2), 1994, pp. 149-151
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied",Optics
Journal title
Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics → ACNP
ISSN journal
09462171
Volume
58
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
149 - 151
Database
ISI
SICI code
0946-2171(1994)58:2<149:ECWEOP>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
We report, to our knowledge for the first time, Continuous Wave (CW) l aser emission at room temperature of Pr:LiYF4 (Pr:YLF) at six waveleng ths: 522, 545, 607, 639.5, 720 and 907.4 nm. The pump source was an ar gon-ion laser tuned to a wavelength of lambda = 457.9 nm. The maximum output powers at 522 nm (P-3(1) --> H-3(5)) and 639.5 nm (P-3(0) --> F -3(2)) were 144 and 266 mW, respectively. We also observed CW laser ac tion of Pr:GdLiF4 (Pr:GLF) at lambda = 639 nm and of Pr:KYF4 (Pr:KYF) at lambda = 642.5 nm.