Excimer-pumped blue-green laser
US4347485A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | May 23, 1979 |
| Grant date | Aug 31, 1982 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 23, 1999 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH01S3/094038
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A method of achieving inversion in solid-state rare-earth materials for blue-green laser operation. A XeF excimer laser is used to pump a matching transition in divalent ytterbium in a host material. The host material is co-doped with a trivalent ion such as praseodymium (Pr.sup.3+) so that energy transfer to the trivalent ion will take place. Laser action is then from the Pr.sup.3+ ion. Alternative matching absorption transitions also occur in the trivalent rare-earth ions of Tb, Dy, Ho, and Nd.
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