Abstract
We report cw room-temperature laser operation at 1.45 μm from the 3H4 --> 3F4 transition in Tm3+;Tb3+: LiYF4, pumped with a laser diode at 782 nm. Tunable laser output from 1.449 - 1.455 μm was also obtained by pumping with a titanium sapphire laser. Tb is codoped with Tm in order to depopulate the lower laser level.
© 1990 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
R. C. Stoneman and L. Esterowitz
LSR3 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1990
Gregory J. Quarles, Charles L. Marquardt, Leon Esterowitz, and Annette Rosenbaum
ML6 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1990
Mahendra G. Jani, Newton. Sims, Keith E. Murray, George E. Lockard, Norman P. Barnes, and Alfred E. Von Theumer
CThF7 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:S&I) 1993