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Two broadly tunable, transition-metal-doped solid state lasers will be discussed in this paper. One uses crystals of Co:MgF2 and operates between 1.5 and 2.3 μm; the other employs Ti:Al203 to obtain output from 0.66 to 0.99 μm. The Co:MgF2 laser was first demonstrated in the early years of laser research [1,2], and our studies of this system have been directed towards a better understanding of the basic laser parameters as well as development of a device suitable for a variety of tunable-laser applications. The Ti:Al203 device is one of the newest solid state tunable lasers and is the first of perhaps a class of systems based on the Ti3+ ion.
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Moulton, P.F. (1985). Recent Advances in Transition-Metal-Doped Lasers. In: Hammerling, P., Budgor, A.B., Pinto, A. (eds) Tunable Solid State Lasers. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 47. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39236-1_2
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