On Yb:CaF2 and Yb:SrF2: review of spectroscopic and thermal properties and their impact on femtosecond and high power laser performance

F Druon, S Ricaud, DN Papadopoulos… - Optical Materials …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We present an overview of laser results we obtained with Yb-doped calcium fluoride and its
isotype strontium fluoride. In order to study the laser performance in femtosecond and high …

Cr: Colquiriite Lasers: Current status and challenges for further progress

U Demirbas - Progress in quantum electronics, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Cr: Colquiriite laser materials (Cr: LiCAF, Cr: LiSAF, Cr: LiSGaF) own broad
absorption bands in the visible region that allow direct-diode pum** by well-developed …

Wavelength-tunable Hermite–Gaussian modes and an orbital-angular-momentum-tunable vortex beam in a dual-off-axis pumped Yb: CALGO laser

Y Shen, Y Meng, X Fu, M Gong - Optics Letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
A dual-off-axis pum** scheme is presented to generate wavelength-tunable high-order
Hermite–Gaussian (HG) modes in Yb: CaGdAlO_4 lasers. The mode and wavelength can …

Divalent (Cr2+), trivalent (Cr3+), and tetravalent (Cr4+) chromium ion-doped tunable solid-state lasers operating in the near and mid-infrared spectral regions

A Sennaroglu, Y Morova - Applied Physics B, 2022 - Springer
The chromium ion is among the most widely explored and used laser-active ions.
Depending on the charge state of the laser-active chromium ion in the host, tunable …

A discretely tunable dual-wavelength multi-watt Yb: CALGO laser

S Manjooran, P Loiko, A Major - Applied Physics B, 2018 - Springer
A discretely tunable dual-wavelength diode-pumped Yb: CALGO laser using a single
birefringent filter (BRF) plate which covered a wavelength range of approximately 1020 …

High-power diode-pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked bulk Yb: KGW laser

R Akbari, A Major - Applied Optics, 2017 - opg.optica.org
A high-power (> 1 W) pure Kerr-lens mode-locked bulk Yb: KGW laser with multimode fiber-
coupled diode pum** was demonstrated. The laser delivered 240 fs pulses with 2.3 W of …

A new near-infrared broadband laser crystal: Cr3+ doped YScO3

J Li, W Hou, Y Xue, Q Wang, Q Song, F Wang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, the Floating zone technique was used to grow high-quality Cr 3+: YScO 3
crystals. The absorption cross-sections of the 4 A 2→ 4 T 1 transition and 4 A 2→ 4 T 2 …

Laser performance of diode-pumped Yb:CaF2 optical ceramics synthesized using an energy-efficient process

P Aballea, A Suganuma, F Druon, J Hostalrich… - Optica, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Due to their natural toughness, and also their flexible and cheap production process, laser
ceramics could provide an interesting alternative to single crystals for meeting the …

Roadmap on ultrafast optics

DT Reid, CM Heyl, RR Thomson, R Trebino… - Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The year 2015 marked the 25th anniversary of modern ultrafast optics, since the
demonstration of the first Kerr lens modelocked Ti: sapphire laser in 1990 (Spence et al …

Demonstration of a Ti: sapphire mode-locked laser pumped directly with a green diode laser

S Sawai, A Hosaka, H Kawauchi… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We demonstrate a Ti: sapphire laser pumped directly with a green diode laser. A single 1 W
InGaN diode laser operating at 518 nm is used as the pump source. Pulse durations as short …