Abstract
The potential medical application of 3-μm lasers has spurred a search for an efficient, high power, solid state source.1 Holmium laser operation at 2.9 μm has been demonstrated in many host crystals using the 5I6—5I7 transition.2 Unfortunately, the self-terminating behavior of these lasers makes them inappropriate for high power operation. Following up on a suggestion by Kaminskii, Machan et al.3 explored codoping Ho: YAG with neodymium in an attempt to remove the self-terminating laser behavior.3 We have pursued this idea further using the anisotropic laser host material YAIO3.
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