Diode-pumped tunable room-temperature LiF : F-2(-) color-center laser

摘要

Pulsed room-temperature tunable operation of a diode-pumped LiF:F-2(-) laser has been demonstrated for the first time to the author's knowledge. The LiF:F-2(-) oscillator was tunable in the 1122-1201-nm range. In the free-running mode, with a nonselective resonator, the LiF:F-2(-) laser showed a 4% optical-to-optical conversion efficiency and a measured 2.5% pumping-to-lasing efficiency at the maximum of the tuning curve for tunable narrow-band operation. (C) 1998 Optical Society of America. [References: 14]