Raman scattering and Nd3+ laser operation in NaLa(WO 4)2

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 157-166

  Garcia Cortes, Alberto ^a   Cascales, Concepción ^a   De Andrés, Alicia ^a   Zaldo, Carlos ^a   Zharikov, Evgenii V ^b   Subbotin, Kirill A ^b   Bjurshagen, Stefan ^c   Pasiskevicius, Valdas ^c   Rico, Mauricio ^a  

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

^b PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Disordered materials; Laser tuning; Nala(wo4 )2; Neodymium; Raman scattering; Rare earth optical spectroscopy; Solid state lasers

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS-WAVE LASER OPERATION; CZOCHRALSKI METHODS; DIODE LASERS; DISORDERED MATERIALS; LASER EFFICIENCY; LASER OPERATIONS; NALA(WO4 )2; ND-DOPED; OPTICAL BANDS; OPTICAL CAVITIES; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; PICOSECOND REGIME; POLARIZATION DEPENDENCE; PUMPING RANGE; REFERENCE COMPOUNDS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPECTRAL REGION; SPECTROSCOPIC PARAMETERS; TI: SAPPHIRE LASER;

LASER TUNING; LASERS; NEODYMIUM; OPTICAL PUMPING; POLARIZATION; PUMPS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SAPPHIRE; SCATTERING; SOLID STATE LASERS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 34347236203     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2006.886450     Document Type: Article

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