Temperature dependencies of excited states lifetimes and relaxation rates of 3-5 phonon (4-6 μm) transitions in the YAG, LuAG and YLF crystals doped with trivalent holmium, thulium, and erbium

Optical Materials

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 355-365

  Orlovskii, Yu V ^a   Basiev, T T ^a   Vorob'ev, I N ^a   Orlovskaya, E O ^a   Barnes, N P ^b   Mirov, S B ^c  

^a PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser crystals; Lifetimes; Mid IR transitions; Multiphonon relaxation; Rare earth ions; Temperature dependence

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); FLUORESCENCE; IONS; PHONONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

LASER CRYSTALS;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0036132014     PISSN: 09253467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-3467(01)00174-4     Document Type: Article

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