High-resolution spectroscopy and emission decay in concentrated Nd:YAG ceramics

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 360-368

  Lupei, Voicu ^a   Lupei, Aurelia ^a   Georgescu, Serban ^a   Diaconescu, Bogdan ^a   Taira, Takunori ^b   Sato, Yoichi ^b   Kurimura, Sunao ^b   Ikesue, Akio ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC PHYSICS   (Romania)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN FINE CERAMICS CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; CRYSTALS; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

EMISSION DECAY;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 0042248037     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.000360     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Y. Zhou, "Growth of high quality large Nd:YAG crystals by temperature gradient technique (TGT)," J. Cryst. Growth 78, 31-35 (1986).
2. P. Gavrilovic, M. S. O'Neill, K. Meehan, J. H. Zarrabi, S. Singh, and W. H. Grodkiewicz, "Temperature-tunable, single frequency microcavity lasers fabricated from flux-grown YCeAG:Nd,"Appl. Phys. Lett. 60, 1652-1654 (1992).
3. B. Ferrand, D. Pelenc, I. Chartier, and Ch. Wyon, "Growth by LPE of Nd:YAG single crystal layers for waveguide laser applications," J. Cryst. Growth 128, 965-969 (1993).
4. A. Ikesue, T. Kinoshita, K. Kamata, and K. Yoshida, "Fabrication and optical properties of high-performance polycrystalline Nd:YAG ceramics for solid state lasers," J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 78, 1033-1040 (1995).
5. 12 ceramics," Appl. Phys. Lett. 77, 939-941 (2000).
6. J. Lu, M. Prabhu, J. C. Song, C. Li, J. Xu, K. Ueda, A. A. Kaminskii, H. Yagi, and T. Yanagitani, "Optical properties and highly efficient laser oscillation of Nd:YAG ceramics," Appl. Phys. B 71, 469-473 (2000).
7. P. Gavrilovic, M. S. O'Neill, J. H. Zarrabi, J. E. Williams, W. H. Grodkiewicz, and B. Bruce, "High-power, single frequency diode-pumped Nd:YAG microcavity lasers at 1.3 μm," Appl. Phys. Lett. 65, 1620-1622 (1994).
8. Y. Urata, R. Hua, S. Wada, H. Tashiro, and P. Deng, "Characterization of highly neodymium doped yttrium aluminum garnet crystals," in Advanced Solid State Lasers, H. In-jeyan, U. Keller, and C. Marshall, eds., Vol. 34 of OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics Series (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.O., 2000), pp. 494-500.
9. V. Lupei, A. Lupei, C. Tiseanu, S. Georgescu, C. Stoicescu, and P. Nanau, "High-resolution optical spectroscopy of Nd:YAG: a test for structural and distribution models," Phys. Rev. B 51, 8-17 (1995).
10. 3+ in garnets," J. Phys. Condens. Matter 10, 9701-9706 (1998).
11. S. Geller, G. P. Espinosa, L. D. Fullmer, and P. B. Crandall, "Thermal expansion of some garnets," Mater. Res. Bull. 7, 1219-1224 (1972).
12. 4 by recombination radiation in GaAs," J. Appl. Phys. 34, 437 (1963).
13. M. Ross, TAG laser operation by semiconductor laser pumping," Proc. IEEE 56, 196-197 (1968).
14. L. J. Rosenkrantz, "Ga As diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser," J. Appl. Phys. 43, 4603-4605 (1972).
15. R. Lavi and S. Jackel, "Thermally boosted pumping of neodymium lasers," Appl. Opt. 39, 3093-3098 (2000).
16. V. Lupei, A. Lupei, N. Pavel, T. Taira, I. Shoji, and A. Iketsue, "Laser emission under resonant pump in the emitting level of concentrated Nd:YAG ceramics," Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 590-592 (2001).
17. T. Kushida and J. E. Geusic, "Optical refrigeration in Nd-doped yttrium aluminum garnet," Phys. Rev. Lett. 21, 1172-1175 (1968).
18. 3+ in YAG at low pump intensities," Phys. Rev. B 81, 8087-8098 (2000).
19. S. I. Golubov and Yu. K. Konobeev, "Procedure of averaging in the theory of resonance transfer of electron excitation energy," Sov. Phys. Solid State 13, 2679-2682 (1972).
20. V. P. Sakun, "Kinetics of energy transfer in a crystal," Sov. Phys. Solid State 14, 1906-1914 (1973).
21. Th. Forster, "Zwischenmolekulare Energiewanderung and Fluoreszenz," Ann. Phys. (Leipzig) 2, 55-75 (1948).
22. D. L. Dexter, "Theory of sensitized luminescence in solids," J. Chem. Phys. 21, 836-850 (1953).
23. M. Inokuti and F. Hirayama, "Influence of energy transfer by the exchange mechanism on donor luminescence," J. Chem. Phys. 43, 1978-1989 (1965).
24. A. I. Burshtein, "Concentration quenching of noncoherent excitation in solutions," Sov. Phys. Usp. 27, 579-606 (1984).
25. 3+ ions in YAG," Opt. Commun. 60, 59-63 (1986).
26. 12 crystal," Sov. J. Quantum Electron. 12, 744-747 (1982).
27. 3+ in YAG at room temperature," Appl. Opt. 20, 1203-1206 (1981).
28. T. Y. Fan, "Heat generation in Nd:YAG and Yb:YAG," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 29, 1457-1459 (1993).
29. I. Shoji, Y. Sato, S. Kurimura, T. Taira, A. Ikesue, and K. Yoshida, "Thermal birefringence in Nd:YAG ceramics," presented at the Advanced Solid-State Lasers Conference, Seattle, Wash., January 28-31, 2001, paper ME 14-1.