Title :
Broadly tunable continuous-wave Cr/sup 2+/:ZnS laser
Author :
Sorokina, Irina T. ; Sorokin, Evgeni ; Mirov, S. ; Fedorov, Vladimir ; Graham, K. ; Badikov, Valeriy ; Panyutin, Vladimir
Author_Institution :
Inst. fur Photonik, Tech. Univ. Wien, Vienna, Austria
Abstract :
Summary from only given. The new class of transition-metal doped zinc chalcogenides, and in particular Cr:ZnSe attract a lot of attention of researchers since mid-90s as broadly tunable continuous-wave (CW) and diode-pumped lasers operating around 2.5 /spl mu/m. In this paper we report the compact Er-fiber laser pumped broadly tunable over /spl sim/500 nm cw room-temperature Cr/sup 2+/:ZnS laser, yielding over 300 mW at /spl sim/40% slope efficiency.
Keywords :
II-VI semiconductors; chromium; infrared sources; laser transitions; laser tuning; semiconductor lasers; zinc compounds; 2.5 micron; 300 mW; 40 percent; ZnS:Cr/sup 2+/; broadly tunable continuous-wave Cr/sup 2+/:ZnS laser; compact Er-fiber laser pump; cw room-temperature Cr/sup 2+/:ZnS laser; diode-pumped lasers; transition-metal doped zinc chalcogenides; Chromium; Laser excitation; Laser theory; Laser tuning; Microchip lasers; Optimized production technology; Polarization; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-706-7
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2002.1033505
