Efficient, diode-pumped Tm3+:BaY2F8 vibronic laser

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1982-1989

  Cornacchia, F ^a   Parisi, D ^a   Bernardini, C ^a   Toncelli, A ^a   Tonelli, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FLUORESCENCE; PHONONS; PUMPING (LASER); REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS;

DOPANT CONCENTRATION; LASING THRESHOLD; VIBRONIC LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 2942708128     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.001982     Document Type: Article

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