Sapphire, garnet and vanadate crystals are the most prominent optical materials, and
vanadates play important roles in optics, especially in lasers and nonlinear optics …

In this introduction we list important definitions and relations that will be used throughout the
book. We will use SI units exclusively. In a departure from custom, for degenerate mixing …

The quasi-phase-matching (QPM) technique has drawn increasing attention due to its
promising applications in areas such as nonlinear frequency conversion for generating new …

Ultrafast high-power lasers are employed in a wide variety of applications in science and
industry. Thin-disk oscillators can offer compelling performance for these applications …

Noble metal nanomaterials have many excellent optical properties due to localized surface
plasmon resonance induced by external electric and magnetic fields. The plasmon …

We demonstrate a frequency-doubling nonlinear-mirror (NLM) modelocked thin-disk laser.
This modelocking technique, composed of an intracavity second harmonic crystal in …

We report a diode-pumped intracavity second-harmonic generation mode-locked solid-state
Tm: YAP laser operating at 1988 nm using a periodically poled congruent LiNbO_3 as the …

An Nd: YVO_4 amplifier consisting of two modules end pumped at 808 nm at 30 W total
absorbed power has been designed for efficient, diffraction-limited amplification of ultrafast …

Abstract Ba 2 TiGe 2 O 8 (BTG) shows excellent second-order nonlinearity and electro-
optical effects. However, it is difficult to grow a perfect BTG single crystal, and the accurate …

A diode-pumped mode-locked Nd: YVO_4 laser via positive cascaded second-order Kerr
lens using periodically poled MgO: LN at 1064 nm was reported. Mode-locking …