Raman gain measurements of thallium-tellurium oxide glasses.
Several different compositions of tellurium-thallium oxide glasses were fabricated and tested for their Raman gain performance. The addition of PbO to the glass matrix increased the surface optical damage threshold by 60-230%. The maximum material Raman gain coefficient experimentally obtained was (58 +/- 3) times higher than the peak Raman gain of a 3.18 mm thick Corning 7980-2F fused silica sample (Deltanu = 13.2 THz). The highest peak in the Raman gain spectrum of the tellurium-thallium glass is attributed to the presence of TeO3 and TeO3+1 structural units with thallium ions in the vicinity at a frequency shift near 21.3 THz.
Stegeman
Robert
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Rivero
Clara
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Richardson
Kathleen
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Stegeman
George
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Delfyett
Peter
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Guo
Yu
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Pope
April
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Schulte
Alfons
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Cardinal
Thierry
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Thomas
Philippe
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Champarnaud-Mesjard
Jean-Claude
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