Colored crystals for lasers
Abstract
The properties of laser materials based on some alkali-halide crystals, sapphire, and diamond with color centers are discussed. The discussion covers laser media based on LiF crystals operating at room temperature; the spectral and kinetic properties of Z color centers in RbCl-Ba crystals; spectroscopic characteristics of color centers in sapphire; and laser media based on diamond crystals irradiated by accelerated electrons and protons or fast neutrons. Possibilities for further improvements in quantum electronics elements based on colored crystals are emphasized.
- Publication:
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Akademiia Nauk SSSR Izvestiia Seriia Fizicheskaia
- Pub Date:
- August 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990IzSSR..54.1467B
- Keywords:
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- Alkali Halides;
- Color Centers;
- Diamonds;
- Laser Materials;
- Lithium Fluorides;
- Sapphire;
- Electron Acceleration;
- Fast Neutrons;
- Laser Outputs;
- Room Temperature;
- Lasers and Masers