Laser Floating Zone Growth: Overview, Singular Materials, Broad Applications, and Future Perspectives

F Rey-García, R Ibáñez, LA Angurel, FM Costa… - Crystals, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Laser Floating Zone (LFZ) technique, also known as Laser-Heated Pedestal Growth
(LHPG), has been developed throughout the last several decades as a simple, fast, and …

Single crystal fibers: diversified functional crystal material

T Wang, J Zhang, N Zhang, S Wang, B Wu, N Lin… - Advanced Fiber …, 2019 - Springer
Single crystal fibers (SCF) are considered to be a combination of bulk crystals and
conventional fibers, thereby possessing the stable physical and chemical properties …

Power scaling limits of diffraction-limited fiber amplifiers considering transverse mode instability

L Dong, J Ballato, J Kolis - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
An empirical TMI threshold formula is derived based on a recently developed model and
used to analyze the power-scaling performance of ytterbium-doped silica glass and YAG …

The characteristics of high-quality Yb: YAG single crystal fibers grown by a LHPG method and the effects of their discoloration

T Wang, J Zhang, N Zhang, S Wang, B Wu, Z Jia… - RSC advances, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Single crystal fibers (SCFs), especially ytterbium (Yb) doped crystal fibers, have great
potential in the field of high-power lasers. Colorless Yb: YAG single crystal fibers were …

Coilable single crystals fibers of doped-YAG for high power laser applications

N Soleimani, B Ponting, E Gebremichael, A Ribuot… - Journal of crystal …, 2014 - Elsevier
Single crystal fibers are an intermediate between laser crystals and doped glass fibers. They
have the advantages of both guiding laser light and matching efficiencies found in bulk …

Theoretical analysis of a 60 W solar-pumped single crystal fiber laser

P **ang, L Lan, Y Liu, H Qi, Y Tang, X Ma - Applied Optics, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In order to improve the output power of solar-pumped single-crystal fiber (SCF) lasers, we
propose a novel solar concentrating system, to the best of our knowledge, consisting of a …

Development of polycrystalline yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) fibers

HJ Kim, GE Fair, AM Hart, SA Potticary… - Journal of the European …, 2015 - Elsevier
Polycrystalline yttrium–aluminum garnet (YAG) fibers are attractive for high-power lasers
and for high-temperature structural materials. Processing methods for< 30 μm diameter …

Pulling growth technique towards rare earth single crystals

CT Sun, DF Xue - Science China Technological Sciences, 2018 - Springer
Pulling growth technique serves as a popular method to grow congruent melting single
crystals with multiscale sizes ranging from micrometers to centimeters. In order to obtain …

Advances in single-crystal fibers and thin rods grown by laser heated pedestal growth

G Maxwell, B Ponting, E Gebremichael, R Magana - Crystals, 2017 - mdpi.com
Single-crystal fibers are an intermediate between laser crystals and doped glass fibers. They
have the advantages of both guiding laser light and matching the efficiencies found in bulk …

Lasing of surface-polished polycrystalline Ho: YAG (yttrium aluminum garnet) fiber

H Kim, RS Hay, SA McDaniel, G Cook, NG Usechak… - Optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
A polycrystalline 1.5% Ho: YAG fiber with a diameter of 31 µm was prepared. Surface
roughness from grain boundary grooving was reduced by polishing, which decreased the …