Tunable-laser characteristics and spectroscopic properties of SrAlF5:Cr
Abstract
Room-temperature tunable-laser action has been observed in Cr-doped SrAlF5. The measured tuning range is 852-947 nm in a quasi-CW laser mode. The effect of nonequivalent Cr sites in SrAlF5 is studied from the absorption and the excitation spectra. A broad absorption band peaked near 750 nm does not contribute to the Cr emission and appears to be associated with a nonradiative site.
- Publication:
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Journal of the Optical Society of America B Optical Physics
- Pub Date:
- January 1986
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1986JOSAB...3..115J
- Keywords:
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- Absorption Spectra;
- Doped Crystals;
- Laser Materials;
- Strontium Fluorides;
- Tunable Lasers;
- Aluminum Fluorides;
- Chromium;
- Laser Outputs;
- Lasers and Masers