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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cadatal-Raduban, Marilou
• Minami, Yuki
• Arita, Ren
• Pham, Minh Hong
• Empizo, Melvin John F.
• Mui Viet Luong
• Hori, Tatsuhiro
• Takabatake, Masahiro
• Fukuda, Kazuhito
• Mori, Kazuyuki
• Yamanoi, Kohei
• Shimizu, Toshihiko
• Sarukura, Nobuhiko
• Fukuda, Kentaro
• Kawaguchi, Noriaki
• Yokota, Yuui
• Yoshikawa, Akira

Titel

Optical characterization of Nd3+:LiCaAlF6 in the vacuum ultraviolet region at low temperature

Ist Teil von

• 2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC), 2017, p.1-1

Ort / Verlag

IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

IEEE Xplore

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Summary form only given. Solid-state vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) lasers are currently being developed because these are more robust, easier to maintain, and more cost-efficient compared to conventional light sources such as excimer lasers, synchrotron radiation, and free electron lasers. Fluorides are excellent solid-state laser host materials for this purpose because of their wide bandgaps, making them transparent down to nearly 100 nm. Moreover, interconfigurational 4f n-1 to 4f n transitions in rare-earth-doped fluorides result to broad fluorescence bandwidths. Previous work has shown that LiCaAlF 6 is an excellent laser host when doped with Ce 3 + ions [1]. However, emission from Ce 3+ activator ions cannot extend below 265 nm. In this work, we investigate the optical properties of Nd 3+ -doped LiCaAlFe (Nd:LiCAF). Nd 3+ -doping results to emissions in the VUV region.