Broadly tunable continuous-wave Cr/sup 2+/:ZnS laser

Author

Sorokina, Irina T. ; Sorokin, Evgeni ; Mirov, S. ; Fedorov, Vladimir ; Graham, K. ; Badikov, Valeriy ; Panyutin, Vladimir

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Photonik, Tech. Univ. Wien, Vienna, Austria

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Firstpage

118

Abstract

Summary from only given. The new class of transition-metal doped zinc chalcogenides, and in particular Cr:ZnSe attract a lot of attention of researchers since mid-90s as broadly tunable continuous-wave (CW) and diode-pumped lasers operating around 2.5 /spl mu/m. In this paper we report the compact Er-fiber laser pumped broadly tunable over /spl sim/500 nm cw room-temperature Cr/sup 2+/:ZnS laser, yielding over 300 mW at /spl sim/40% slope efficiency.

Keywords

II-VI semiconductors; chromium; infrared sources; laser transitions; laser tuning; semiconductor lasers; zinc compounds; 2.5 micron; 300 mW; 40 percent; ZnS:Cr/sup 2+/; broadly tunable continuous-wave Cr/sup 2+/:ZnS laser; compact Er-fiber laser pump; cw room-temperature Cr/sup 2+/:ZnS laser; diode-pumped lasers; transition-metal doped zinc chalcogenides; Chromium; Laser excitation; Laser theory; Laser tuning; Microchip lasers; Optimized production technology; Polarization; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1033505

Filename

1033505