Abstract

A reliable room-temperature-operated, pulsed LiF:F₃ ⁺ color-center laser with a two-mirror cavity has been constructed. This laser is useful as a tunable, green, coherent light source. The laser has shown a long-lifetime operation and remarkable amplitude stability by pumping with a dye laser. The laser light has a peak at 543 nm. The slope efficiency is approximately 2%, and the pump threshold is approximately 75 mW.

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Stable room-temperature LiF:F₂⁺* tunable color-center laser for the 830–1060-nm spectral range pumped by second-harmonic radiation from a neodymium laser

V. V. Ter-Mikirtychev
Appl. Opt. 34(27) 6114-6117 (1995)

Diode-pumped tunable room-temperature LiF:F₂^- color-center laser

Valerii V. Ter-Mikirtychev
Appl. Opt. 37(27) 6442-6445 (1998)

Comparative study of tunable room-temperature laser operation in the 900–1100-nm range: LiF:F₂⁺ and Ti³⁺:sapphire

Chris B. Rawle, Iain T. McKinnie, Valerii V. Ter-Mikirtychev, and Weston J. Sandle
Appl. Opt. 39(24) 4320-4326 (2000)

Multiline, superbroadband and sun-color oscillation of a LiF:F₂^- color-center laser

Tasoltan T. Basiev, Petr G. Zverev, Vladimir V. Fedorov, and Sergey B. Mirov
Appl. Opt. 36(12) 2515-2522 (1997)

Efficient 550–600-nm tunable laser based on noncritically phase-matched frequency doubling of room-temperature LiF:F2- in lithium triborate

S. Maile Giffin, Glenn W. Baxter, Iain T. McKinnie, and Valerii V. Ter-Mikirtychev
Appl. Opt. 41(21) 4331-4335 (2002)