OBSERVATION OF FLUORESCENCE LINE NARROWING, HOLE BURNING, AND ION-ION ENERGY-TRANSFER IN NEODYMIUM LASER GLASS

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BRAWER, SA
WEBER, MJ
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[1] University of California, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Livermore
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10.1063/1.90911
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O59 [应用物理学];
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The existence of hole burning and the degree of homogeneity in the 4F3/2→4I11/2 laser transition of Nd3+ in a silicate glass at 295 K are established by exciting the small thermal population in the 4I11/2 state with a pulsed Nd: YAG laser and observing resonant fluorescence line narrowing. Measurements of time-resolved line-narrowed 4F3/2→ 4I9/2 spectra show that hole filling is slow; cross relaxation rates between ions in spectrally different sites are <10 4 s-1 for concentrations of ≤3 wt.% Nd 2O3.
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