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1.2.2 Tables of Glass Lasers
Data on specific lanthanide ion lasers are given in Table 1.2.4. The results are grouped
by the form of the glass—bulk (rod, disk), fiber, planar waveguide, microcavity. Within
each group, lasers are listed by the type of host glass that is specified by the glass network
former (silicate, phosphate, fluorozirconate, etc.) and, if known, the principal glass network
modifier cation(s). If codopants or sensitizing ions are added, they are listed in parentheses.
Commercial glasses are identified by their commercial designation (in parentheses). For
these lasers, the glass type is generally known but the detailed compositions are usually
proprietary.

Other columns in Table 1.2.4 give the lasing transition and wavelength, pump wave-
length or source (flashlamp, laser, sun), operating temperature, mode (pulsed, cw, quasi-cw;
single- or multi-mode), together with primary references. Lasers involving upconversion
schemes are noted in the mode column. Lasers that have been tuned over a range of
wavelengths are listed by the lowest wavelength reported; the tuning range given is that for
the configuration and experimental conditions used and may not represent the extremes
possible.

Abbreviations used in Table 1.2.4:
Pump source Mode of operation

alex — alexandrite (BeAl O :Cr) laser cw — continuous wave
2
4
Ar — argon ion laser DFB — distributed feedback
CC — color center laser m — multimode
D — frequency doubled p — pulsed
LD — laser diode qcw — quasi-continuous wave
NdYAG — Nd:Y Al O laser s — single mode
12
5
3
NdYLF — Nd:LiYF laser upc — upconversion pumping scheme
4
TiS — titanium doped sapphire (Al O ) laser wgm — whispering galley mode
3
2

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