Energy storage efficiency and population dynamics in flashlamp-pumped sensitized erbium glass laser

Matjaz Lukac

doi:10.1117/12.43846

1 April 1991 Energy storage efficiency and population dynamics in flashlamp-pumped sensitized erbium glass laser

Matjaz Lukac

Proceedings Volume 1419, Eyesafe Lasers: Components, Systems, and Applications; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.43846
Event: Optics, Electro-Optics, and Laser Applications in Science and Engineering, 1991, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

Erbium population dynamics in ytterbium sensitized phosphate glass is studied by measuring transient changes in laser probe transmission during flashlamp pumping. The influence of energy loss channels such as excitation cumulation and nonlinear fluorescence quenching on the flashlamp pumping efficiency is observed to be relatively small. The decrease in the pumping efficiency at high input energies can be attributed mostly to the shift in the flashlamp output radiation spectrum.

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Matjaz Lukac "Energy storage efficiency and population dynamics in flashlamp-pumped sensitized erbium glass laser", Proc. SPIE 1419, Eyesafe Lasers: Components, Systems, and Applications, (1 April 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.43846

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