1987
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-10635-8_6
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Color Center Lasers

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“…5 Alkali halide (AH) crystals containing colour centres (CCs) have been extensively studied for the realization of optically pumped tuneable solid-state lasers. 6 Little attention, however, has so far been devoted to AH films and to their application in the development of innovative miniaturized coherent light sources, like active waveguides and microcavities. Broad band single-mode active channel waveguides have been realized for the first time at the surface of LiF single-crystals 7 and films 8 thermally evaporated on LiF bulk.…”
Section: Integrated Opticsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…5 Alkali halide (AH) crystals containing colour centres (CCs) have been extensively studied for the realization of optically pumped tuneable solid-state lasers. 6 Little attention, however, has so far been devoted to AH films and to their application in the development of innovative miniaturized coherent light sources, like active waveguides and microcavities. Broad band single-mode active channel waveguides have been realized for the first time at the surface of LiF single-crystals 7 and films 8 thermally evaporated on LiF bulk.…”
Section: Integrated Opticsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There are several conventional tunable cw-laser systems available for the MI:R, like lead salt-diodes, color center lasers, optical parametric oscillators, and CO or CO2 side band lasers [2][3][4]. However, either they need cryogenic cooling, or do not cover all spectral regions that are of interest for the spectroscopy and in most cases these are technically complicated and relatively complex laser sources.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…34,35 Other methods that can be used to generate ultrashort pulses in the mid-infrared spectral region include the free electron laser, 2,3 color-center lasers, 36 and differencefrequency mixing. 4,11,37 The OPO -OPA system offers distinct advantages over these methods for generating high-repetition-rate, high-peak power femtosecond pulses in this wavelength region.…”
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“…Additionally, color-center lasers do not have sufficient pulse energy to permit performance of nonlinear experiments, and they tend to suffer from such problems as photobleaching, which makes them an unreliable source. 36 Finally, difference-frequency mixing is capable of generating short pulses with sufficient energy in the mid-infrared region. 4,37 But the high laser energies that are necessary to obtain a useful amount of infrared light require low-repetition-rate amplifiers (#1 kHz) for the mixing pulses.…”
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