Powerful room-temperature stable LiF:F2+**tunable laser
Author(s) -
Sergey Mirov,
Alex Dergachev
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
proceedings of spie, the international society for optical engineering/proceedings of spie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 176
eISSN - 1996-756X
pISSN - 0277-786X
DOI - 10.1117/12.269993
Subject(s) - laser , materials science , optoelectronics , optics , range (aeronautics) , physics , composite material
A powerful photo- and thermostable, LiF:F2+ color center laser pumped by radiation at 740 nm or at 683 nm is described. This is the first time an average power as high as approximately 1.4 W and an energy per pulse as high as approximately 100 mJ, with record real efficiency of 53 percent and 28 percent were achieved for a room temperature LiF:F2+ color center laser. Such color center laser, tunable in the 820-1210 nm range, features a number of important advantages over pulsed lasers based on Ti or Cr doped crystals.
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