Oxide and halide laser glasses

Technical Report · Fri Jul 30 04:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:5076443

Weber, M J

Optical and spectroscopic properties of oxide and halide glasses are compared for optically-pumped laser applications. Properties considered include the 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 sections, and spectroscopic inhomogeneities of the lasing ion. Most of these properties exhibit systematic variations with glass composition which can be used to tailor laser parameters. Measured properties for the 4/sub F//sub 3/2 ..-->.. /sup 4/I/sub 11/2/ lasing transition of Nd/sup 3 +/ are surveyed for oxide (silicate, phosphate, borate, germanate, tellurite), halide (fluoroberyllate, fluoroaluminate, fluorozirconate, fluorohafnate, chloride), and oxyhalide (fluorophosphate, chlorophosphate) glasses.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 5076443
• Report Number(s): UCRL-87964; CONF-820743-1; ON: DE82020162
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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