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This paper reports on the results of the investigation of KGSS 0180/35 neodymium phosphate glasses produced on an industrial scale under oxidizing conditions and glasses prepared under experimental conditions in which iron and copper in small amounts rather than neodymium are introduced into the glass composition. The experimental glasses are synthesized by varying the redox conditions of melting. The oxidation states of transition metal impurities (Cu, Fe, V, Ni, Co) and the nonactive absorption coefficients of glasses at the lasing wavelength are determined. It is revealed that the main contribution to the nonactive absorption coefficient of the KGSS 0180/35 glass produced on an industrial scale is made by Cu2+ ions at a concentration higher than 0.5 ppm. At a lower copper concentrations, the total contribution of Fe2+, V4+, Ni2+, and Co2+ impurity ions to the nonactive absorption coefficient is comparable to that of Cu2+ ions. It is demonstrated that a decrease in the concentration of coloring impurities in glasses and the optimization of redox conditions of melting make it possible to prepare phosphate laser glasses with a nonactive absorption coefficient of the order of 0.001 cm−1. In terms of the nonactive absorption coefficient, these glasses are on a par with similar glasses of foreign manufacture and satisfy the requirements imposed on glasses by developers of high-power high-energy laser facilities.
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Original Russian Text © P.E. Gusev, V.I. Arbuzov, M.V. Voroshilova, S.I. Nikitina, A.D. Semenov, Yu.K. Fedorov, 2006, published in Fizika i Khimiya Stekla.
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Gusev, P.E., Arbuzov, V.I., Voroshilova, M.V. et al. Effect of coloring impurities on the absorption in neodymium phosphate laser glass at a lasing wavelength. Glass Phys Chem 32, 146–152 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1087659606020040
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