• DocumentCode
    2088408
  • Title

    Novel mid-infrared random powder lasers Cr/sup 2+/:ZnS vs. Cr/sup 2+/:ZnSe

  • Author

    Sorokina, Irina T. ; Sorokin, Evgeni ; Shcherbitsky, V.G. ; Kuleshov, Nikolai V. ; Zhu, G. ; Frantz, A. ; Noginov, M.A.

  • Author_Institution
    Institut fur Photonik, Technische Univ. Wien, Vienna
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    21-21 May 2004
  • Firstpage
    736
  • Lastpage
    738
  • Abstract
    We report the first room-temperature pulsed lasing from the single-crystalline Cr2+:ZnS (around 2.3 mum) and Cr2+ :ZnSe (around 2.4 mum) powders with the threshold pump energy density as low as ~34 mJ/cm2
  • Keywords
    chromium; high-speed optical techniques; optical pumping; powders; semiconductor lasers; ZnS:Cr2+; ZnSe:Cr2+; midinfrared random powder lasers; room-temperature pulsed lasing; threshold pump energy density;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics Conference, 2004. (IQEC). International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-778-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1366977