Commissariat a L'energie Atomique

Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique

Yves Grange

Bernard Ferrand

Daniel Vivien

Jeannine Thery

Dominique Lefebvre

Mixed lanthanide-magnesium gallates and laser using monocrystals of these gallates. This laser has two flash lamps for longitudinally pumping a monocrystalline rod of a magnetoplumbite-type gallate emitting a light ranging from the UV to the IR, which is amplified between two mirrors and a polarizing prism serving to pass to the outside of the laser the amplified light beam. The gallate is of formula: ##STR1## in which M.sup.1 represents Nd, Pr, Ce, Nd-Ce or Pr-Ce in the trivalent state; M.sup.2 represents aluminium, optionally partly substituted by scandium and/or indium; k is a number between 0.94 and 1; x is a number between 0 and 1; t is a number such that 0.ltoreq.t.ltoreq.0.05, provided that t is.noteq.0 when x=0 and that x is .noteq.0 when t=0; v is a number such that 0.ltoreq.v+t&lt;1 and z is a number between 0 and 0.5.

Mixed lanthanide-magnesium gallates and laser using monocrystals of

According to the invention, an apparatus for producing a monocrystal comprises at least one thermally conductive crucible for receiving the material, a thermally conductive holder having a part able to receive each crucible and extended by a projection, a heater for heating the thermally conductive holder and each crucible containing the material, a drive for the relative displacement of the thermally conductive holder and each crucible containing the material with respect to the said heater and a crystalizer able to bring about the crystallization of one end of the material melted in the heater, once said end has been extracted therefrom, and wherein the projection is positioned so as to check the temperature gradient undergone by the material during the relative displacement.

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