This paper examines methods for the fabrication of optical fluoride nanoceramics and the
compaction behavior of precursor powders. We discuss the basic drawbacks to the ceramics …

An analytical model is presented describing the temporal intensity contrast determined by
amplified spontaneous emission in high‐intensity laser systems which are based on the …

We report on results from the fully diode-pumped chirped-pulse amplification laser system
Polaris. Pulses were amplified to a maximum energy of 54.2 J before compression. These …

The existence and the identification of only one or several coparticipating luminescent Yb 3+
centers in the heavily doped Yb: CaF 2 laser crystals which are considered in the …

We present a fully analytic model of an all-optical free electron laser (OFEL) undulator based
on the Traveling-Wave Thomson-Scattering (TWTS) scheme. The TWTS undulator provides …

We report on a diode-pumped cryogenically cooled bulk Yb: CaF_2 12-pass amplifier
delivering 110-mJ, 1030-nm pulses at a 50-Hz repetition rate. The pulses have a spectral …

We investigated and compared Yb: CaAlGdO_4 and Yb: CaF_2 regenerative amplifiers at
repetition rates 5-10 kHz, a frequency range interesting for industrial applications requiring …

In this work, we explore the effect of ionic field strength of modifiers (Li+, Na+, K+, Mg 2+, Ca
2+, Sr 2+ and Ba 2+) on room-temperature Stark splitting and spectroscopic properties of Yb …

As aliovalent do** materials, RE 3+ doped AF 2 (A= Ca, Sr and Ba), which show not only
high thermal conductivity and low nonlinear refractive index ascribed to fluorides, but also …

A novel design of a grating-based optical pulse compressor is proposed. The proposed
compressor provides a large group delay dispersion while kee** the compressor linear …