Cobalt-Doped Transparent Glass Ceramic as a Saturable Absorber Q Switch for Erbium:Glass Lasers Export

@article{citeulike:1300863, abstract = {A new saturable absorber Q switch for 1.54- m Er:glass lasers is presented. The saturable absorber is a transparent glass ceramic that contains magnesium -aluminum spinel nanocrystallites doped with tetrahedrally coordinated Co2 +ions. We obtained Q -switched pulses of up to 5.5 mJ in energy and 80 ns in duration at 1.54 m. The relaxation time of 4A2 4T1 (4F ) transition bleaching was measured to be (450 -/+ 150) ns. Ground-state and excited-state absorption cross sections at 1.54- m wavelength were estimated to be (3.2 -/+ 0.4) x10-19 cm2 and (5.0 -/+ 0.6) x10-20 cm2 , respectively.}, author = {Malyarevich, Alexander M. and Denisov, Igor A. and Yumashev, Konstantin V. and Dymshits, Olga S. and Zhilin, Alexander A. and Kang, Uk}, citeulike-article-id = {1300863}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://ao.osa.org/abstract.cfm?id=65079}, day = {20}, journal = {Applied Optics}, keywords = {absorber, co, er, glass-ceramic}, month = {August}, number = {24}, pages = {4322--4325}, posted-at = {2007-06-05 17:46:30}, priority = {2}, title = {Cobalt-Doped Transparent Glass Ceramic as a Saturable Absorber Q Switch for Erbium:Glass Lasers}, url = {http://ao.osa.org/abstract.cfm?id=65079}, volume = {40}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1300863 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1300863 N2 - A new saturable absorber Q switch for 1.54- m Er:glass lasers is presented. The saturable absorber is a transparent glass ceramic that contains magnesium -aluminum spinel nanocrystallites doped with tetrahedrally coordinated Co2 +ions. We obtained Q -switched pulses of up to 5.5 mJ in energy and 80 ns in duration at 1.54 m. The relaxation time of 4A2 4T1 (4F ) transition bleaching was measured to be (450 -/+ 150) ns. Ground-state and excited-state absorption cross sections at 1.54- m wavelength were estimated to be (3.2 -/+ 0.4) x10-19 cm2 and (5.0 -/+ 0.6) x10-20 cm2 , respectively. IS - 24 JF - Applied Optics EP - 4325 TI - Cobalt-Doped Transparent Glass Ceramic as a Saturable Absorber Q Switch for Erbium:Glass Lasers VL - 40 SP - 4322 KW - absorber KW - co KW - er KW - glass-ceramic AU - Malyarevich, Alexander AU - Denisov, Igor AU - Yumashev, Konstantin AU - Dymshits, Olga AU - Zhilin, Alexander AU - Kang, Uk PY - 2001/08/20/ UR - http://ao.osa.org/abstract.cfm?id=65079 ER -