• DocumentCode
    1128906
  • Title

    Experimental upper limit to the time of nonradiative relaxation between4 T 2and2 E states in ruby

  • Author

    Pollack, S.

  • Author_Institution
    TRW Systems Group, Redondo Beach, CA, USA
  • Volume
    4
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    1968
  • fDate
    10/1/1968 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    703
  • Lastpage
    704
  • Abstract
    An upper limit of 5 \\times 10^{-10} seconds has been determined to the time of nonradiative relaxation between4T2and2 E states of ruby. The value was inferred from slope comparison of the experimental and theoretical rise curves of R -line fluorescence.
  • Keywords
    Absorption; Delay effects; Fluorescence; Gas lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical pulses; Photomultipliers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Sparks; Spectrogram;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JQE.1968.1074924
  • Filename
    1074924