Influence of uncorrelated inhomogeneous broadening of the 1.06 μ band of the Nd3+ ions on laser properties of neodymium glasses

A method of induced luminescence quenching by a single-frequency giant pulse with a tunable wavelength was used to determine the homogeneous broadening and its temperature (95–300 °K) and wavelength (1.05–1.08 μ) dependences for a number of commercial glasses. The influence of uncorrelated inhomogeneous broadening on the spectral and energy characteristics of laser radiation was analyzed.