CRYSTAL-GROWTH, SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION, AND LASER PERFORMANCEOF A NEW EFFICIENT LASER MATERIAL ND-BA-5(PO4)(3)F

Authors
LOUTTS GB BONNER C MEEGODA C RIES H NOGINOV MA NOGINOVA N CURLEY M VENKATESWARLU P RAPAPORT A BASS M
Citation
Gb. Loutts et al., CRYSTAL-GROWTH, SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION, AND LASER PERFORMANCEOF A NEW EFFICIENT LASER MATERIAL ND-BA-5(PO4)(3)F, Applied physics letters, 71(3), 1997, pp. 303-305
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
Journal title
Applied physics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036951
Volume
71
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
303 - 305
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6951(1997)71:3<303:CSCALP>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
High quality single crystals of neodymium doped barium fluorapatite ha ve been grown by the Czochralski technique and evaluated as an optical gain medium. A product of the emission cross section and lifetime of Nd3+ luminescence of more than 1.8x10(-22) cm(2) s at 1055 nm, and las er performance with slope efficiency up to 65% have been obtained. (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics.