Published in

Optica, Optics Express, 6(17), p. 4382, 2009

DOI: 10.1364/oe.17.004382

Links

Tools

Export citation

Search in Google Scholar

Broadband laser tunability of Nd3+ ions in 0.8CaSiO(3)-0.2Ca(3)(PO4)(2) eutectic glass

This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

Full text: Download

Red circle
Preprint: archiving forbidden
Green circle
Postprint: archiving allowed
Green circle
Published version: archiving allowed
Data provided by SHERPA/RoMEO

Abstract

Site-selective spectroscopy and stimulated emission experiments performed in the (4)F(3/2)-->(4)I(11/2) laser transition of Nd(3+)-doped 0.8CaSiO(3-) 0.2Ca(3)(PO(4))(2) eutectic glass are presented. The spectral features of the excitation spectra and those of spontaneous and stimulated emissions reveal the existence of a very complex crystal field site distribution for Nd(3+) ions. As a consequence, the stimulated emission of Nd(3+) in this glass shows a tunability of about 10 nm as a function of excitation wavelength.