Room-temperature diode-pumped continuous-wave SrY4(SiO4)3O: Yb3+, Er3+ crystal laser at 1554 nm

7 March 1994

journal article
research article
Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters

Vol. 64 (10) , 1189-1191
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.110885

Abstract

Continuous‐wave (cw) laser operation at room temperature of an Yb³⁺, Er³⁺ doped oxyapatite single crystal SrY₄(SiO₄)₃O pumped at 980 nm by an InGaAs diode laser has been achieved around the eye‐safe laser wavelength of 1554 nm.

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