Laser-active, defect-stabilized F2 + center in NAF:OH - and dynamics of defect-stablized center formation
Abstract
A defect-stabilized F2(+) center in NaF with virtually unlimited shelf life at room temperature is described. It has allowed for efficient CW laser action tunable from 1.08 to 1.38 microns. The center is achieved with OH(-) doping and heavy radiation damage. Studies of production of this center and of the similar excited F2(+) center in crystals doped with divalent metal ions reveal that in both cases the stabilizing defect is itself a product of the radiation damage.
- Publication:
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Optics Letters
- Pub Date:
- July 1981
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1981OptL....6..342M
- Keywords:
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- Continuous Wave Lasers;
- Doped Crystals;
- Infrared Lasers;
- Laser Materials;
- Laser Stability;
- Radiation Damage;
- Sodium Fluorides;
- Crystal Defects;
- Crystal Growth;
- Hydroxyl Compounds;
- Metal Ions;
- Tunable Lasers;
- Lasers and Masers