Stimulated emission (4F3/2 → 4I11/2 channel) with LD and Xe-flashlamp pumping of tetragonal, incommensurately modulated Ca2MgSi2O7:Nd3+(Na+) - a new disordered laser crystal

Laser Physics Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 876-883

  Kaminskii, A A ^a   Nakao, H ^b   Bohati, L ^a,c   Becker, P ^c   Liebertz, J ^c   Kleinschrodt, R ^c   Ueda, K ^b   Shirakawa, A ^b  

^a SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

LD pumped CW laser; Melilite type Ca2MgSi2O7:Nd3+(Na+) disordered laser crystal; Stimulated emission; Tetragonal Ca2MgSi2O7 crystal with incommensurately modulated structure; Xe flashlamp pumped laser

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449235335     PISSN: 16122011     EISSN: 1612202X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lapl.201010078     Document Type: Article

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