Tunable Solid State Lasers Proceedings of the First International Conference La Jolla, Calif., June 13–15, 1984 - Hammerling, Peter; Budgor, Aaron B.; Pinto, Albert (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1985)
In recent years there has been renewed interest in the scientific and industrial communities in tunable solid state vibronic lasers. Much of this has been spurred by the user desirous of obtaining compact primary laser sources (independent of nonlinear optical frequency shifts) throughout the visible and near infrared spectral regions. To further motivate and stimulate research and development in this area, workshops sponsored by the Laser Division of the US Army Night Vision Electro-Optics Laboratory (NVEOL) at Fort Belvoir, Virginia were held during 1-3 April 1981 and 16-17 June 1983 at Keystone and NVEOL, respectively. The consensus of opinion of the participants at these workshops was that any successful program leading to the identification and development of vibronic tunable laser materials in the visible and IR must include coordinated activity between crystal growers, theoretical and experimental investigators into the fundamental processes of vibronic lasing, and laser device engineers. Continued interaction between government, industry, and academia was encouraged in order to establish a unified approach to these areas and, when necessary, redefine and redirect programmatic activity. The organization of this 1st Annual Conference on Tunable Solid State Lasers held at the La Jolla Institute 13-15 June 1984, was based around the latest results in tunable vibronic materials and laser development, but structured in a manner consistent with the recommendations of the NVEOL workshops