• DocumentCode
    1092860
  • Title

    Optically pumped atomic thulium lasers

  • Author

    White, J.C. ; Bokor, J. ; Henderson, D.

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    18
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1982
  • fDate
    3/1/1982 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    320
  • Lastpage
    322
  • Abstract
    A thulium vapor column is irradiated with the fourth harmonic of a Nd:YAG laser at 266 nm. The near coincidence with a dipole allowed transition from ground state results in efficient optical pumping yielding 87 simultaneous superfluorescent laser transitions from 300 to 900 nm. Many of the emissions are due to inversions to the ground state of both neutral and singly ionized Tm atoms.
  • Keywords
    Gas lasers; Rare-earth materials/devices; Atom lasers; Atom optics; Atomic beams; Atomic measurements; Laser excitation; Laser transitions; Optical pumping; Pump lasers; Resonance; Stationary state;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JQE.1982.1071533
  • Filename
    1071533
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1092860