Abstract
Solid-state vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) lasers are currently being developed because these are more robust, easier to maintain, and more cost-efficient compared to conventional light sources such as excimer lasers, synchrotron radiation, and free electron lasers. Fluorides are excellent solid-state laser host materials for this purpose because of their wide bandgaps, making them transparent down to nearly 100 nm. Moreover, interconfigurational 4fn-1 to 4fn transitions in rare-earth-doped fluorides result to broad fluorescence bandwidths. Previous work has shown that LiCaAlF6 is an excellent laser host when doped with Ce3+ ions [1]. However, emission from Ce3+ activator ions cannot extend below 265 nm. In this work, we investigate the optical properties of Nd3+-doped LiCaAlF6(Nd:LiCAF). Nd3+-doping results to emissions in the VUV region.
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