CW and pulsed Cr/sup 2+/:ZnS and ZnSe microchip lasers

Author

Mirov, S.B. ; Fedorov, V.V. ; Graham, K. ; Moskalev, I.S. ; Badikov, V.V. ; Panutin, V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Alabama Univ., Birmingham, AL, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Firstpage

120

Abstract

Summary from only given. There is a growing demand for affordable, compact, room temperature operational and broadly tunable mid-infrared laser sources for use in a variety of remote sensing applications. The most impressive results have been obtained using Cr/sup 2+/:ZnSe crystals. Cr:ZnS and especially Cr:CdS have yet remained barely studied. In this paper we extend our effort to develop novel high optical density and high quality chromium doped ZnS, CdS, and ZnSe microchip laser crystals.

Keywords

chromium; infrared sources; laser transitions; laser tuning; microchip lasers; semiconductor lasers; zinc compounds; Cr/sup 2+/:ZnS; ZnS:Cr/sup 2+/; ZnSe; broadly tunable mid-infrared laser sources; cw lasers; high quality chromium doped microchip laser crystals; pulsed microchip lasers; remote sensing applications; room temperature operational; Chromium; Fiber lasers; Laser excitation; Microchip lasers; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Solid lasers; Zinc compounds;

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.2002.1033507

Filename

1033507