Recent developments in laser glasses

Conference · Mon Jan 10 00:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:6535193

Weber, M J

The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of new glass-forming compositions including oxides, halides, oxyhalides, and chalcogenides. Many of these glasses are applicable to lasers and have greatly expanded the range of optical properties and spectroscopic parameters available to the laser designer. Our knowledge and understanding of many properties of interest for laser action - transparency, linear and nonlinear refractive indices, and damage threshold of the host glass and the absorption spectrum, radiative and nonradiative transition probabilities, fluorescence wavelength, stimulated emission cross section, and spectroscopic inhomogeneities of the lasing ion Nd/sup 3 +/ - are reviewed.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 6535193
• Report Number(s): UCRL-87796; CONF-821203-3; ON: DE83006010
• Resource Relation: Conference: International conference on lasers, New Orleans, LA, USA, 13 Dec 1982
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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