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Appl Opt. 1999 Jul 20;38(21):4533-47. doi: 10.1364/ao.38.004533.

Properties of Nd3+-doped and undoped tetragonal PbWO4, NaY(WO4)2, CaWO4, and undoped monoclinic ZnWO4 and CdWO4 as laser-active and stimulated raman scattering-active crystals.

Applied optics

A A Kaminskii, H J Eichler, K Ueda, N V Klassen, B S Redkin, L E Li, J Findeisen, D Jaque, J García-Sole, J Fernández, R Balda

Affiliations

  1. Institute of Crystallography, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117333 Moscow, Russia. [email protected]

PMID: 18323938 DOI: 10.1364/ao.38.004533

Abstract

Spectroscopic, laser, and chi((3)) nonlinear optical properties of tetragonal PbWO(4), NaY(WO(4))(2), CaWO(4), and monoclinic CdWO(4) and ZnWO(4) were investigated. Particular attention was paid to Nd(3+)-doped and undoped PbWO(4) and NaY(WO(4))(2) crystals. Their absorption and luminescence intensity characteristics, including the peak cross sections of induced transitions, were determined. Pulsed and continuous-wave lasing in the two 4F(3/2)-->4I(11/2) and 4F(3/2)-->4I(13/2) channels was excited. For these five tungstates, highly efficient (greater than 50%) multiple Stokes generation and anti-Stokes picosecond generation were achieved. All the observed scattered laser components were identified. These results were analyzed and compared with spectroscopic data from spontaneous Raman scattering. A new crystalline Raman laser based on PbWO(4) was developed for the chi((3)) conversion frequency of 1-microm pump radiation to the first Stokes emission with efficiency up to 40%. We classify all the tungstates as promising media for lasers and neodymium-doped crystals for self-stimulated Raman scattering lasers.

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