Excited-state absorption studies of Cr4+ ions in several garnet host crystals

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 292-299

  Burshtein, Z ^a   Blau, P ^a   Kalisky, Y ^a   Shimony, Y ^b   Kokta, M R ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER NEGEV   (Israel)

^c UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorbing media; Optical propagation in absorbing media; Optical saturation; Spectroscopy; YAG materials devices

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHROMIUM; CRYSTALS; IONS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SOLID STATE LASERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION (ESA); INORGANIC SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

LIGHT ABSORPTION;

EID: 0031996552     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.658716     Document Type: Article

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