NV<sup>-</sup> diamond laser.

Savvin, Alexander; Dormidonov, Alexander; Smetanina, Evgeniya; Mitrokhin, Vladimir; Lipatov, Evgeniy; Genin, Dmitriy; Potanin, Sergey; Yelisseyev, Alexander et al. · Nat Commun · 2021

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

For the first time, lasing at NV- centers in an optically pumped diamond sample is achieved. A nanosecond train of 150-ps 532-nm laser pulses was used to pump the sample. The lasing pulses have central wavelength at 720 nm with a spectrum width of 20 nm, 1-ns duration and total energy around 10 nJ. In a pump-probe scheme, we investigate lasing conditions and gain saturation due to NV- ionization and NV0 concentration growth under high-power laser pulse pumping of diamond crystal.