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Continuous-wave operation of the KBr:CN^− solid-state vibration laser in the 5-μm region

T. R. Gosnell, Clifford R. Pollock, A. J. Sievers

Optics Letters · 1985 · 86 citations · 3 references

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Abstract

Continuous-wave lasing has been obtained on the 2 ? 1 vibrational transition of impurity CN(-) ions in KBr. Population inversion is produced by optical pumping of the weakly allowed first-overtone level of the molecule with a tunable (F(2)(+))(A) color-oenter laser.

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