{"term":{"id":"03219","title":"ion laser","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - ion laser","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.I03219","code":"I03219","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"A gas laser in which the active species is an ion formed in the electric discharge. Most practically important lasers of this type have continuous wave (CW) output. Examples are the argon ion, krypton ion and helium-cadmium (HeCd) lasers.","links":[{"term":"active species","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/A00110"},{"term":"gas laser","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/G02585"}],"sources":["PAC, 1995, 67, 1913. 'Nomenclature, symbols, units, and their usage in spectrochemical analysis-XV. Laser-based molecular spectroscopy for chemical analysis - laser fundamentals (IUPAC Recommendations 1995)' on page 1920 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/pac199567111913)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/I03219\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/I03219\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/I03219\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'ion laser' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.I03219","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-04-20T23:02:34+00:00"}}