2 papers
physics.optics1999
Lasing on the D_2 line of sodium in helium atmosphere due to optical pumping on the D_1 line (up-conversion)
A. A. Apolonsky, S. A. Babin, S. I. Kablukov +3
A new method is proposed to produce population inversion on transitions involving the ground state of atoms. The method is realized experimentally with sodium atoms. Lasing at the…
atom-ph1996
Giant Coulomb broadening and Raman lasing on ionic transitions
A. A. Apolonsky, S. A. Babin, A. I. Chernykh +4
CW generation of anti-Stokes Raman laser on a number of blue-green argon-ion lines (4p-4s, 4p-3d) has been demonstrated with optical pumping from metastable levels 3d'^2G, 3d^4F. I…