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Spectroscopy and Continuous Wave Near-Infrared Stimulated Emission of New Yttrium Gallium Garnet {Y3}[Y, Ga](Ga3)O12:Nd3+ (YGaO3:Nd3+)

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Detailed spectroscopic investigations are made for a new laser material, a Nd3+-ion doped YGaO3 garnet crystal with disordered structure, grown from the physicochemical Y2O3-Ga2O3 system with sesquioxide relation close to 1:1. Following absorption and luminescence spectral analyses, the Stark splitting of the 4F3/2 and 4Ij’ manifolds of Nd3+ activators are measured with high accuracy. Between the Stark levels of two near-infrared laser channels (4F3/2→4I11/2 and 4F3/2→4I13/2) low-threshold continuous wave stimulated emission was excited at 300 K. Some spectroscopic characteristics, such as radiative lifetime of the initial laser 4F3/2 state, intermanifold and inter-Stark luminescence branching ratios, linewidths, spontaneous transition probabilities and peak and effective cross-sections of induced transitions are also determined. These parameters are necessary for a theoretical description of the functional properties of Nd3+:YGaO3 lasers.

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  1. Institute of Crystallography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospekt 59, 117333, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander A. Kaminskii & Galina A. Bogomolova

  2. Institute for Laser Science, University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1, Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo, 182-8585, Japan

    Ken-ichi Ueda

  3. Department of Physics, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia, 23688, U.S.A.

    Doyle Temple

  4. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049, Madrid, Spain

    Jose Garcia-Sole & Daniel Jaque

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Kaminskii, A.A., Ueda, Ki., Temple, D. et al. Spectroscopy and Continuous Wave Near-Infrared Stimulated Emission of New Yttrium Gallium Garnet {Y3}[Y, Ga](Ga3)O12:Nd3+ (YGaO3:Nd3+). OPT REV 7, 101–111 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10043-000-0101-2

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