SOL-GEL SILICA LASER TUNABLE IN THE BLUE

被引:32
作者
LAM, KS [1 ]
LO, D [1 ]
WONG, KH [1 ]
机构
[1] HONG KONG POLYTECH,DEPT APPL PHYS,HONG KONG,HONG KONG
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APPLIED OPTICS | 1995年 / 34卷 / 18期
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10.1364/AO.34.003380
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Doped and undoped silica slabs were fabricated through the use of the sol-gel technique. Extended UV transmission was observed for HCl-catalyzed sol-gel silica. Under transverse pumping with a XeCl laser, narrow-linewidth (<0.9-nm) laser oscillation from silica slabs doped with coumarin 460 (C460) was achieved in a grating-resonator cavity configured in the grazing-indicence geometry. Tuning of the C460-doped silica laser extended from 468 to 494 nm. The conversion efficiency of the narrow-linewidth blue laser was 5.5%.
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页码:3380 / 3383
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