Abstract
A new color center laser has been developed in additively colored NaCl doped with 100 ppm OH−. This laser displays stable cw operation and tunes smoothly from 1.41 to 1.77 μm when pumped by a cw Nd:YAG laser at 1.06 μm. To date, cw output powers of 1.1 W at 1.6 μm have been obtained for pump powers of 8.5 W. In a synchronously pumped mode-locked arrangement, pulses of 5 ps duration have been generated tunable from 1.5 to 1.7 μm, with average power of 450 mW at 1.6 μm.
© 1986 Optical Society of America
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