Variation of the stimulated emission cross section in Nd:YAG caused by the structural changes of Russell-Saunders manifolds

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Variation of the stimulated emission cross section in Nd:YAG caused by the structural changes of Russell-Saunders manifolds

Yoichi Sato and Takunori Taira »View Author Affiliations

Optical Materials Express, Vol. 1, Issue 3, pp. 514-522 (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OME.1.000514

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It was experimentally found that electronic structures of Russell-Saunders manifolds in Nd:YAG depended on the Nd³⁺-doping concentration (C_Nd) and its fabrication process. Both of the bandwidth and the branching ratio in fluorescent transitions in Nd:YAG varied almost linearly depending on C_Nd, and a fabrication process has its own diluted limit of the bandwidth and the branching ratio. Also dependences of Stark splitting in Nd:YAG were also observed. Nd³⁺-doping causes 1.9% and 4.5% reduction in the stimulated emission cross section of Nd:YAG per 1at.% of C_Nd at 1.064 μm and 1.319 μm, respectively.

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(140.3380) Lasers and laser optics : Laser materials
(140.3530) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, neodymium

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Original Manuscript: April 20, 2011
Revised Manuscript: June 6, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: June 17, 2011
Published: June 30, 2011

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Advances in Optical Materials (2011) Optical Materials Express

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Yoichi Sato and Takunori Taira, "Variation of the stimulated emission cross section in Nd:YAG caused by the structural changes of Russell-Saunders manifolds," Opt. Mater. Express 1, 514-522 (2011)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ome/abstract.cfm?URI=ome-1-3-514

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Akchurin, M. S.
Akiyama, J.
Bettinelli, M.
Blumen, A.
Cavalli, E.
Cohen-Adad, M. T.
Dexter, D. L.
Ermeneux, F. S.
Förster, T.
Gainutdinov, R. V.
Georgescu, S.
Geusic, J. E.
Goutaudier, C.
Ikesue, A.
Judd, B. R.
Kaminskii, A. A.
Kurimura, S.
Kushida, T.
Lupei, A.
Lupei, V.
Manz, J.
Marcos, H. M.
Moncorge, R.
Ofelt, G. S.
Sato, Y.
Shirakava, A.
Shoji, I.
Taira, T.
Takaichi, K.
Ueda, K.
Yagi, H.
Yanagitani, T.
Yoshida, K.

Ann. Phys.

T. Förster, “Intermolecular energy migration and fluorescence,” Ann. Phys. 2, 55–75 (1948).

Appl. Phys. Lett.

I. Shoji, S. Kurimura, Y. Sato, T. Taira, A. Ikesue, and K. Yoshida, “Optical properties and laser characteristics of highly Nd3+-doped Y3Al5O12 ceramics,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 77(7), 939–941 (2000). [CrossRef]

Crystallogr. Rep.

A. A. Kaminskii, M. S. Akchurin, R. V. Gainutdinov, K. Takaichi, A. Shirakava, H. Yagi, T. Yanagitani, and K. Ueda, “Microhardness and fracture toughness of Y2O3- and Y3Al5O12-based nanocrystalline laser ceramics,” Crystallogr. Rep. 50(5), 869–873 (2005). [CrossRef]

IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron.

T. Taira, “RE3+-ion-doped YAG ceramic lasers,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 13(3), 798–809 (2007). [CrossRef]

J. Chem. Phys.

G. S. Ofelt, “Intensities of crystal spectra of rare-earth ions,” J. Chem. Phys. 37(3), 511–520 (1962). [CrossRef]
A. Blumen and J. Manz, “On the concentration and time dependence of the energy transfer to randomly distributed acceptors,” J. Chem. Phys. 71(11), 4694–4702 (1979). [CrossRef]
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Opt. Mater.

Y. Sato, J. Akiyama, and T. Taira, “Effects of rare-earth doping on thermal conductivity in Y3Al5O12 crystals,” Opt. Mater. 31(5), 720–724 (2009). [CrossRef]
F. S. Ermeneux, C. Goutaudier, R. Moncorge, M. T. Cohen-Adad, M. Bettinelli, and E. Cavalli, “Comparative optical characterization of various Nd3+:YVO4 single crystals,” Opt. Mater. 13(2), 193–204 (1999). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev.

T. Kushida, “Linewidths and thermal shifts of spectral lines in neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet and calcium fluorophosphate,” Phys. Rev. 185(2), 500–508 (1969). [CrossRef]
T. Kushida, H. M. Marcos, and J. E. Geusic, “Laser transition cross section and fluorescence branching ratio for Nd3+ in yttrium aluminum garnet,” Phys. Rev. 167(2), 289–291 (1968). [CrossRef]
B. R. Judd, “Optical absorption intensities of rare-earth ions,” Phys. Rev. 127(3), 750–761 (1962). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. B

V. Lupei, A. Lupei, S. Georgescu, T. Taira, Y. Sato, and A. Ikesue, “The effect of Nd concentration on the spectroscopic and emission decay properties of highly doped Nd:YAG ceramics,” Phys. Rev. B 64(9), 092102 (2001). [CrossRef]

Other

R. M. Yamamoto, B. S. Bhachu, K. P. Cutter, S. N. Fochs, S. A. Letts, C. W. Parks, M. D. Rotter, and T. F. Soules, “The use of large transparent ceramics in a high powered, diode pumped solid-state laser,” Proceedings of OSA Topical meeting on Advanced Solid-State Photonics 2008, WC5, Nara, Japan (Jan. 2008).
S. J. McNaught, H. Komine, S. B. Weiss, R. Simpson, A. M. F. Johnson, J. Machan, C. P. Asman, M. Weber, G. C. Jones, M. M. Valley, A. Jankevics, D. Burchman, M. McClellan, J. Sollee, J. Marmo, and H. Injeyan, “100 kW coherently combined slab MOPAs,” in Proceedings of Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO/QELS, CThA1, Baltimore, MA, USA (2009).
Y. Sato, T. Taira, and A. Ikesue, “A study on influences of Nd3+-doping concentration upon spectroscopic properties of Nd:Y3Al5O12 ceramics,” in Proceedings of OSA Topical meeting on Advanced Solid-State Photonics 2009, WB18, Denver, CO, USA (Feb. 2009).

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2007, Taira, IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron.
2005, Kaminskii, Crystallogr. Rep.
2001, Lupei, Phys. Rev. B
2000, Shoji, Appl. Phys. Lett.
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1979, Blumen, J. Chem. Phys.
1969, Kushida, Phys. Rev.
1968, Kushida, Phys. Rev.
1962, Judd, Phys. Rev.
1962, Ofelt, J. Chem. Phys.
1953, Dexter, J. Chem. Phys.
1948, Förster, Ann. Phys.

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