The idea of cooling a solid-state optical material by simply ... compared with 1.2 eV in ytterbium-doped solids. Weighing against this advantage are two other considerations.
The company will also provide updates on the commissioning phase for both the Silicon-28 and the Ytterbium-176 facilities. The company expects to commence commercial production of Silicon-28 and ...
Like conventional solid-state lasers based on doped laser crystals, fibre lasers rely on glass doped with a rare earth element (ytterbium or erbium being the most common) as a gain medium.