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Garnets are a very numerous and versatile family of crystals, yet until recently only a few compositions (YIG, YAG, GGG) have been used extensively in lasers and opto-electronics. With the recent experience of Huber and Shcherbakov [1] in sensitizing Nd by co-doping with Cr in the garnet GSGG, greatly improving laser efficiency, interest has begun to develop to explore other garnets as hosts for new monovalent, divalent and trivalent laser-active ions for tunable solid state lasers and more efficient phosphors.
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DeShazer, L.G. (1985). Use of Garnet Crystals as Laser Hosts. In: Byer, R.L., Gustafson, E.K., Trebino, R. (eds) Tunable Solid State Lasers for Remote Sensing. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 51. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39765-6_28
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