Title :
Light-induced grating study of excitation migration in Er-, Tm-, and Ho-doped YSGG laser crystals
Author :
Noginov, M.A. ; Caulfield, H.J. ; Venkateswariu, P. ; Mahdi, Mohd Adzir ; Soroklna, L.T.
Author_Institution :
Center for Nonlinear Opt. & Mater., Alabama A&M Univ., Normal, AL, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. In the present work we study electronic excitation migration in yttrium scandium gallium garnet (YSGG) laser crystals doped with Er, Tm, and Ho by the light-induced-grating (LIG) technique. The results of the LIG study were confirmed in a luminescence kinetics experiment, when we resonantly excited Tm ions with short pulses of Er laser light and registered Ho and Tm luminescence kinetics.
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; erbium; garnets; holmium; photoluminescence; scandium compounds; solid lasers; terbium; yttrium compounds; YScGG:Er,Tm,Ho; YScGa5O12:Er,Tm,Ho; doped YSGG laser crystal; electronic excitation migration; light-induced grating; luminescence kinetics; Crystals; Erbium; Garnets; Gratings; Kinetic theory; Laser excitation; Luminescence; Optical pulses; Resonance; Yttrium;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-443-2
