Broadly tunable laser operation near 2 μm in a locally disordered crystal of Tm3+-doped NaGd(WO4)2

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2494-2502

  Cano Torres, José M ^a   Serrano, María Dolores ^a   Zaldo, Carlos ^a   Rico, Mauricio ^b   Mateos, Xavier ^b   Liu, Junhai ^b   Griebner, Uwe ^b   Petrov, Valentin ^b   Valle, Francisco José ^c   Galán, Miguel ^d   Viera, Gregorio ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO DE CERÁMICA Y VIDRIO   (Spain)

^d Monocrom SL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; PUMPING (LASER); SAPPHIRE; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

CZOCHRALSKI METHOD; DIODE LASER PUMPING; OPTICAL TRANSITIONS; TETRAGONAL SPACE GROUP;

LASER TUNING;

EID: 33846051302     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.002494     Document Type: Article

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