• DocumentCode
    3541230
  • Title

    Excited-state absorption at 1.06 /spl mu/m in Nd-doped glasses as the origin of nonunity quantum yield

  • Author

    Descamps, D. ; Gamache, C. ; Husson, D. ; Migus, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Lab. pour l´Utilisation des Lasers Intenses, Ecole Polytech., Palaiseau, France
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    3-8 May 1998
  • Firstpage
    257
  • Lastpage
    258
  • Abstract
    Summary form only given. We show the presence of the excited state absorption (ESA) at 1.06 /spl mu/m in the Nd-doped glasses and we quantify the ESA cross section for silicate (LG680) and phosphate (LG760) glasses. During the pumping, the upconversion process and the ESA at the pump wavelength populate the 4G excited states.
  • Keywords
    excited states; fluorescence; laser transitions; light absorption; neodymium; optical glass; optical pumping; stimulated emission; 1.06 mum; 4G excited states; ESA cross section; Nd-doped glass lasing; excited-state absorption; green fluorescence; laser transitions; nonunity quantum yield; optical pumping; phosphate LG760 glasses; pump wavelength; silicate LG680 glasses; upconversion process; Absorption; Glass; Laser excitation; Neodymium; Optical pulse generation; Optimized production technology; Pump lasers; Quantum well lasers; Solids; Steady-state;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-339-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.1998.676136
  • Filename
    676136