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Spectroscopic and lasing properties of Ho:Tm:LuAG
Optics Letters
|October 6, 2009
Abstract:
Ho:Tm:LuAG has been grown, examined spectroscopically, and lased at 2.1 microm. Ho:Tm:LuAG was selected for this experimental investigation when quantum-mechanical modeling predicted that it would be a good laser material for Ho laser operation on one of the (5)I(7) to (5)I(8) transitions. Lasing was achieved at 2.100 microm, one of the three wavelengths predicted to be most probable for laser action.
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