Laser crystal with at least two co-dopants

An active laser medium for emitting a light beam by laser effect includes an X-F2-doped crystal, wherein X is a chemical element from the alkaline-earth family and F is fluorine. The crystal is doped with trivalent ions including: a first category of optically active dopant ions, in which each dopan...

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Hauptverfasser: Camy, Patrice, Braud, Alain, Goossens, Jean-Paul, Benayad, Abdel, Doualan, Jean-Louis
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Zusammenfassung:An active laser medium for emitting a light beam by laser effect includes an X-F2-doped crystal, wherein X is a chemical element from the alkaline-earth family and F is fluorine. The crystal is doped with trivalent ions including: a first category of optically active dopant ions, in which each dopant ion is an ion of a first rare earth; and a second category of optically inactive dopant ions, referred to as buffer ions, in which each dopant ion is an ion of a rare earth different from the first rare earth. The second category of dopant ions has at least ions of a second rare earth and ions of a third rare earth, different from one another. The invention provides an active laser medium that can be used to obtain both a desired emission spectrum shape and a high thermal conductivity.