An Excimer-Pumped Blue-Green Laser.
Abstract
A method of achieving inversion in solid-state rare-earth materials for blue-green laser operation. A XeF excimer laser is used to pump a matching transition in divalent ytterbium in a host material. The host material is co-doped with a trivalent ion such as Pr so that energy transfer to the trivalent ion will take place. Laser action is then from the Pr(3+) ion. Alternative matching absorption transitions also occur in the trivalent rare-earth ions of Tb, Dy, Ho, and Nd.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 10, 1978
- Accession Number
- ADD004609
Entities
People
- Filbert Bartoli
- Leon Esterowitz
- Melvin Kruer
- Roger E. Allen
Organizations
- United States Department of the Navy