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Properties of Solid-State Laser Materials

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Solid-State Laser Engineering

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Materials for laser operation must possess sharp fluorescent lines, strong absorption bands, and a reasonably high quantum efficiency for the fluorescent transition of interest. These characteristics are generally shown by solids (crystals or glass) which incorporate in small amounts elements in which optical transitions can occur between states of inner, incomplete electron shells. Thus the transition metals, the rare earth (lanthanide) series, and the actinide series are of interest in this connection. The sharp fluorescence lines in the spectra of crystals doped with these elements result from the fact that the electrons involved in transitions in the optical regime are shielded by the outer shells from the surrounding crystal lattice. The corresponding transitions are similar to those of the free ions. In addition to a sharp fluorescence emission line, a laser material should possess pump bands within the emission spectrum of readily available pump sources such as arc lamps and laser diode arrays.

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