Title : 
Laser oscillation of Nd3+-doped photo-thermo-refractive glass under diode laser pumping
         
        
            Author : 
Sato, Yoichi ; Taira, Takunori ; Smirnov, Vadim ; Glebova, Larissa ; Glebov, Leonid
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Laser Res. Center for Mol. Sci., Inst. for Mol. Sci., Okazaki, Japan
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Laser oscillation of Nd3+-doped photo-thermo-refractive glass (Nd:PTR) were examined for the first time. We confirmed that laser efficiency of Nd:PTR is stable even with wavelength shift of pump source due to its wide absorption bandwidth.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Absorption; Bandwidth; Glass; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Laser modes; Laser transitions; Neodymium; Pump lasers; Surface emitting lasers;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Jose, CA, USA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-55752-890-2
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-55752-890-2