Efficient room temperature LiF:F2+ * * color center laser tunable in 820-1210 nm range

Optics Communications

Volumn 147, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 107-111

  Dergachev, Alex Yu ^a,b   Mirov, Sergey B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b Schwartz Electro Optics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Alexandrite laser; Color center laser; LiF:F2+ * *; Tunable laser

Indexed keywords

COLOR CENTERS; LASER TUNING; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

ALEXANDRITE LASERS; RAMAN SHIFTED SECOND HARMONICS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0031997729     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(97)00621-4     Document Type: Article

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