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Continuous-wave, pair-pumped laser

Ping Xie, Stephen C. Rand

Optics Letters · 1990 · 50 citations · 9 references

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Abstract

We report room-temperature operation of what we believe is the first continuous-wave laser that relies exclusively on cooperative upconversion by coupled ion pairs to achieve population inversion.

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