Ce3+-Activated Fluoride Crystals as Prospective Active Media for Widely Tunable Ultraviolet Ultrafast Lasers with Direct 10-ns Pumping

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 792-804

  Sarukura, Nobuhiko ^a   Liu, Zhenlin ^a   Segawa, Yusaburo ^a   Dubinskii, Mark A ^b   Semashko, Vadim V ^c   Naumov, Alexander K ^c   Korableva, Stella L ^c   Abdulsabirov, Ravil Y ^c   Edamatsu, Keiichi ^d   Suzuki, Yoshiro ^d   Itoh, Tadashi ^d  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERIUM; CRYSTALS; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; LASER PULSES; LASER TUNING; PUMPING (LASER); ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ACTIVE MEDIA; FLUORIDE CRYSTALS; PICOSECOND PULSE AMPLIFICATION; SOLID STATE TUNABLE ULTRAVIOLET LASER MATERIAL; WIDELY TUNABLE ULTRAVIOLET ULTRAFAST LASERS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0029371247     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: 15584542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.473661     Document Type: Article

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