Tunable continuous-wave operation of a Cr3+,Li+:Mg2SiO4 laser.
Room-temperature tunable cw laser oscillation of Cr3+ ions in forsterite crystals (Mg2SiO4) codoped with chromium and lithium has been demonstrated, for the first time to the authors' knowledge, in pumping a crystal with a Ti:sapphire laser into the first excited level of Cr3+ ions (4A2-4T2 transition). The laser is smoothly tunable in the region of 1095-1170 nm. A slope efficiency as great as 4.4% has been achieved.
Lebedev
V F
VF
A. M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia.
Tenyakov
S Yu
SY
Gaister
A V
AV
Podstavkin
A S
AS
Shestakov
A V
AV
Sorokin
V N
VN