Tunable Solid-State Lasers II

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Spectroscopy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Two-Photon Spectroscopy Using Infrared Photons

      • D. S. McClure

      Pages 2-4

   3. Laser Spectroscopy Measurements on Tunable Solid State Laser Materials

      • R. C. Powell

      Pages 5-13

   4. Spectral Holeburning in Titanium-Doped Sapphire and YAG

      • R. M. Macfarlane, W. Lenth

      Pages 14-18

3. Chromium Spectroscopy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Chromium Activated Crystals as Tunable Laser Media — What Makes Them Special?

      • J. A. Caird

      Pages 20-34

   3. Radiative and Nonradiative Energy Transfer Between Cr3+ and Nd3+ in GSGG

      • G. Armagan, B. Di Bartolo

      Pages 35-43

   4. Excited-State Absorption and Photoconductivity of GSGG:Cr and GSAG:Cr

      • L. J. Andrews

      Pages 44-51

   5. The Fluorescence Behaviour of Chromium-Doped Oxide Glasses

      • D. B. Hollis, S. Parke, M. J. Payne

      Pages 53-61

4. Crystal Growth

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Chromium-Doped Garnet Hosts: Crystal Chemistry Development and Properties

      • E. V. Zharikov

      Pages 64-75

   3. Crystal Growth of ScBO3:Cr 3+ — A New Near-IR Tunable Laser Crystal

      • B. H. T. Chai, M. Long, R. C. Morris, S. T. Lai

      Pages 76-81

   4. Growth of Laser-Quality Ti:Al2O3 Crystals by a Seeded Gradient-Freeze Technique

      • R. E. Fahey, A. J. Strauss, A. Sanchez, R. L. Aggarwal

      Pages 82-88

   5. Effects of Growth Conditions and Post-Growth Thermal Treatment on the Quality of Titanium-Doped Sapphire

      • M. R. Kokta

      Pages 89-93

   6. Growth of Cerium-Doped Rare Earth Silicates for Tunable Lasers

      • R. F. Belt, J. A. Catalano

      Pages 94-101

5. Chromium Tunable Lasers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. The Chromium-Doped Rare-Earth Gallium Garnet Crystals as the Active Material for Solid-State Lasers

      • I. A. Shcherbakov

      Pages 104-112

   3. Single-mode Operation of Cr-Doped GSGG and KZnF3

      • P. Fuhrberg, W. Luhs, B. Struve, G. Litfin

      Pages 113-117

   4. Flashlamp-pumped Cr3+:GSAG and Cr3+:GSGG : Slope Efficiency, Resonator Design, Color Centers and Tunability

      • J. Drube, G. Huber, D. Mateika

      Pages 118-125

In June 1984 a conference on visible and IR tunable solid-state lasers was held in La Jolla, California. The proceedings were published as the first volume of this series, Tunable Solid State Lasers *. The emphasis of this meeting focused on discerning unified themes in the generic areas of: - Laser host/dopant identification and growth procedures, - Theoretical analysis to elucidate fundamental tunable laser principles, - Experimental investigations on laser spectroscopy to which theoretical analyses and models can be anchored, and - Auxiliary technology developments in efficient laser pumping sources (diodes, ftashlamps). Subsequent to the La Jolla conference, two topical meetings were held, co-sponsored by the Lasers and Electro-Optics Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Optical Society of America (OSA). The contents of Tunable Solid-State Lasers II comprise the pro­ ceedings of the second of these two, held at Rippling River Resort, Zigzag, Oregon, June 4-6, 1986. In addition to the four areas of attention in the La Jolla meeting, pa­ pers on color-center and new rare-earth lasers, and on nonlinear frequency shifting were also given. In a fashion similar to the previous meetings, the informal atmosphere of the conference and meeting site was conducive to constructive interaction among the attendees. A total of 54 papers were scheduled for presentation, 20 of which were invited and 34 contributed.

• electronics
• laser
• laser spectroscopy
• optics
• spectroscopy

• Electronics Division, Northrop Corp., Hawthorne, USA

  Aaron B. Budgor

• Naval Research Lab., USA

  Leon Esterowitz

• Spectra Technology, Inc., Bellevue, USA

  Larry G. DeShazer

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