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Lasing characteristics of heavily doped single-crystal Fe:ZnSe

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Characteristics of a Fe:ZnSe laser are studied at room temperature. The laser active elements are heavily doped single crystals with the \(\hbox {Fe}^{2+}\) ion concentration \(n=0.64\times 10^{19}-5.7\times 10^{19}\hbox {cm}^{-3}\), grown from melt by the Bridgman method. The generated energy of 870 mJ is obtained at the total efficiencies with respect to the absorbed and incident energies \(\eta _{\mathrm{{abs}}}=43\%\) and \(\eta _{\mathrm{{inc}}}\approx 35\%\), respectively. The laser slope efficiency with respect to the absorbed energy is \(\eta _\mathrm{{slope}}\approx 50\%\). In a heavily doped active element with the \(\hbox {Fe}^{2+}\) concentration \(n=5.7\times 10^{19}\hbox {cm}^{-3}\), in which the medium excitation depth is just a part of the total element dimension along the optical axis (the element is completely non-transparent for the pumping radiation), the radiation spectrum of the Fe:ZnSe laser shifts to the long-wavelength range by more than 300 nm as compared to spectra of the laser on crystals excited along the whole element length. It is shown that Fe:ZnSe lasers on heavily doped single-crystal elements can be efficiently excited by a radiation of a Cr:ZnSe laser without tuning the spectrum of the latter to the longer wavelength range.

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This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, Grant no. 19-13-00205 (development of the technique for creating Fe:ZnSe samples and preparation of active elements for experiments) and by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 18-08-00793 (study of laser characteristics).

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Antonov, V.A., Davydov, A.A., Firsov, K.N. et al. Lasing characteristics of heavily doped single-crystal Fe:ZnSe. Appl. Phys. B 125, 173 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-019-7288-7

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