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New Nd³⁺:BaLu₂F₈ laser crystal

A. A. Kaminskii^a, A. V. Butashin^a, S. N. Bagayev<sup>b

a</sup> Institute of Cristallography Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
^b Institute of Laser Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk

Abstract: A new Nd³⁺:BaLu₂F₈ laser crystal was grown. It is capable of low-threshold pulsed lasing (⁴F_3/2 → ⁴I_11/2 channel) at 300 K under flashlamp pumping. Preliminary results are reported of a study of the spectral and luminescence characteristics of this crystal and of the excitation of low-threshold lasing on two inter-Stark transitions in the ⁴F_3/2 → ⁴I_11/2 channel of the Nd³⁺ ions.

PACS: 42.70.Hj, 42.55.Rz

Received: 01.01.1996

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 1996, 26:9, 753–754

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