On thermal effects in solid-state lasers: The case of ytterbium-doped materials

S Chénais, F Druon, S Forget, F Balembois… - Progress in quantum …, 2006 - Elsevier
A review of theoretical and experimental studies of thermal effects in solid-state lasers is
presented, with a special focus on diode-pumped ytterbium-doped materials. A large part of …

[BOOK][B] Nonlinear optical crystals: a complete survey

DN Nikogosyan - 2006 - books.google.com
Nonlinear optical techniques are now recognized as the most efficient means available to
generate laser radiation at wavelengths that are presently inaccessible via conventional …

Ytterbium solid-state lasers. The first decade

WF Krupke - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The spectroscopic and laser kinetic properties of the trivalent ytterbium ion in various solid-
state media are reviewed. Contrasts between four-and quasi-three-level lasers (eg, Nd: YAG …

New laser crystals for the generation of ultrashort pulses

F Druon, F Balembois, P Georges - Comptes Rendus Physique, 2007 - Elsevier
Since the beginning of the 1990s, titanium sapphire has become the crystal of choice for the
development of ultrashort laser systems producing very short and powerful pulses using the …

[BOOK][B] The handbook of photonics

MC Gupta, J Ballato - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Reflecting changes in the field in the ten years since the publication of the first edition, The
Handbook of Photonics, Second Edition explores recent advances that have affected this …

Thermal lensing in diode-pumped ytterbium lasers-Part I: theoretical analysis and wavefront measurements

S Chénais, F Balembois, F Druon… - IEEE Journal of …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A theoretical and experimental study of thermal lensing in Yb-doped crystals is presented. In
this first part, we focus on theoretical considerations and we describe an original technique …

Thermal lensing in diode-pumped ytterbium lasers-part II: evaluation of quantum efficiencies and thermo-optic coefficients

S Chénais, F Balembois, F Druon… - IEEE Journal of …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A theoretical and experimental study of thermal lensing in Yb-doped crystals is presented.
This papers follows the presentation of theoretical considerations and experimental …

Thermal behaviour of ytterbium-doped fluorite crystals under high power pum**

J Boudeile, J Didierjean, P Camy, JL Doualan… - Optics express, 2008 - opg.optica.org
We report an in situ thermal study of Yb-doped fluorite crystals Yb: CaF_2 and Yb: SrF_2
under high power pum**, with or without laser operation. The experiment combines …

491 nm generation by sum-frequency mixing of diode pumped neodymium lasers

E Herault, F Balembois, P Georges - Optics express, 2005 - opg.optica.org
We present three different dual-wavelength laser architectures to obtain cw blue radiations.
They are based on diode-pumped Nd-doped crystals lasing on the 4F3/2-4I11/2 and 4F3/2 …

Saturation factors of pump absorption in solid-state lasers

Y Sato, T Taira - IEEE journal of quantum electronics, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Novel models for the saturation factors of absorption under optical pum** in solid-state
lasers are derived, and these factors depend on the pum** scheme. We investigated the …