Gain and continuous-wave laser oscillation on the 1315 nm atomic iodine transition pumped by an air-helium electric discharge

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Woodard, B S ^a   Zimmerman, J W ^a   Benavides, G F ^a   Carroll, D L ^a   Verdeyen, J T ^a   Palla, A D ^a   Field, T H ^a   Solomon, W C ^b   Davis, S J ^c   Rawlins, W T ^c   Lee, S ^c  

^a CU AEROSPACE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c PHYSICAL SCIENCES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; HELIUM; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; INERT GASES; IODINE; LASERS; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION;

ATOMIC IODINE; CONTINUOUS WAVE (C.W.); LASER OSCILLATIONS; TRANSITION (JEL CLASSIFICATIONS:E52 ,E41 ,E31);

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 47549095376     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2957678     Document Type: Article

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