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Broadly tunable laser operation near 2 μ m in a locally disordered crystal of Tm 3 + -doped NaGd ( WO 4 ) 2

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Output powers as high as 300mW were obtained at 1925nm in the cw regime with a Tm laser operating at room temperature, either with Ti-sapphire or diode laser pumping, using a new single crystal of NaGd(WO4)2 grown by the Czochralski method and doped with 5mol.% of Tm3+ in the melt. This crystal belongs to the I4¯ tetragonal space group and exhibits a locally disordered structure due to the random occupancy of the same lattice sites by Na and Gd (or Tm) ions. The local disorder results in large bandwidths of the Tm3+ optical transitions (e.g., FWHM60cm1 at 5K for the H63F43 transition involved in the laser emission), which allows one to obtain one of the broadest laser tunability ranges, from 1813 to 2025nm(17THz), achieved with a Tm3+-doped crystalline material. A detailed characterization of the Tm3+ optical spectroscopy in this novel host was performed at 5 and 300K.

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