Experimental and theoretical results of investigation of CW Yb:LiLuF4 (Yb:LLF) and Yb:Na4Y6F22 (Yb:NYF) lasers under longitudinal diode laser pump are reported. Slope efficiencies of 41%, 58% with 0.21, 0.53 W of output ...

© 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. Lasing and spectroscopic properties of an LiY 0.3 Lu 0.7 F 4 :Pr 3+ crystal grown by the Bridgman–Stockbarger method were investigated in detail. ...

© 2016 Optical Society of America.An investigation of Tm-Ho energy transfer in Tm(5at.%),Ho(0.4at.%):KYW single crystal by two independent techiques was performed. Based on fluorescence dynamics measurements, energy transfer ...

© OSA 2015. Laser operation of in-band pumped Er:KY(WO4)2 and, for the first time to our knowledge, Er:LiYF4 crystals was demonstrated. The maximal slope efficiencies of 40% and 21% were obtained for Er:KY(WO4)2 and Er:LiYF4 ...

© 2017 Optical Society of America. We report on the composition of Er-doped KGd x Yb y Y 1−x−y (WO 4 ) 2 layers to be grown onto undoped KY(WO 4 ) 2 substrate providing fine lattice matching and high refractive index ...

© 2016 Kvantovaya Elektronika and Turpion Ltd.Spectroscopic properties of Er : LiLuF4 and Er : LiYF4 crystals in the spectral region near 1.5 mm and the lasing characteristics of these crystals under in-band pumping at a ...

© 2016 Elsevier B.V.The spontaneous YAl3(BO3)4 (YAB) and GdAl3(BO3)4 (GdAB) crystals (of nominal composition and co-doped with Er and Yb) up to 4–5 mm in length were grown from high-temperature solutions using K2Mo3O10 ...

© 2016 IEEE.We report diode-pumped passively Q-switched Er, Yb:GdAl3(BO3)4 laser. By using of Co2+:MgAl2O4 crystal as a saturable absorber Q-switched laser pulses with duration of 12 ns and maximum energy of 18.7 μJ at ...

Yb3+ (2.7 at.%):Na4Y6F22 and Yb3+(1 at.%):LiLuF4 crystals were grown by the Bridgman-Stockbarger method. We measured the temperature dependences of the thermal conductivity of the crystals and the absorption spectra. We ...