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  • JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.1975-1983 (2009)
  • Vasnetsov, M V; Bazhenov, V Yu; Slussarenko, S S; Abbate, G
  • The coupled-wave approach was used for the analysis of volume gratings in a medium with light gain for the sake of oscillation threshold determination in the second-order Bragg...

  • JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2050-2053 (2009)
  • Zou, Chang-Ling; Yang, Yong; Xiao, Yun-Feng; Dong, Chun-Hua; Han, Zheng-Fu; Guo, Guang-Can
  • A new method based on the boundary element method (BEM) is developed to calculate high quality factors of whispering-gallery modes by studying the Poynting vector. The method has...

  • JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2084-2088 (2009)
  • Turri, Giorgio; Jenssen, Hans P; Cornacchia, Francesco; Tonelli, Mauro; Bass, Michael
  • Spectroscopic properties of neodymium-doped yttrium orthovanadate crystals were measured in the temperature range between 5 and 350 K. Crystals fabricated by different suppliers,...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3559-3561 (2009)
  • Coluccelli, Nicola; Galzerano, Gianluca; Cornacchia, Francesco; Di Lieto, Alberto; Tonelli, Mauro; Laporta, Paolo
  • Continuous-wave laser action of a Tm-doped GdLiF4 (GLF) crystal pumped by a laser diode is reported at room temperature. A comparative analysis of laser performance using...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3562-3564 (2009)
  • Lin, Ping-Hsun; Chou, Ming-Chang; Jiang, Ming-Jhe; Tseng, Po-Chang; Chu, Hsu-Hsin; Lin, Jiunn-Yuan; Wang, Jyhpyng; Chen, Szu-yuan
  • A strongly saturated waveguide-based optical-field-ionization soft-x-ray laser seeded by high harmonic generation was demonstrated for Ni-like Kr lasing at 32.8 nm. Compared with the...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.20623-20630 (2009)
  • Pochet, M; Naderi, N A; Terry, N; Kovanis, V; Lester, L F
  • This work investigates the behavior of a zero-detuned optically-injected quantum-dash Fabry-Perot laser as the injected field ratio is increased from near-zero to levels resulting in...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.20707-20713 (2009)
  • Kobtsev, Sergey; Kukarin, Sergey; Smirnov, Sergey; Turitsyn, Sergey; Latkin, Anton
  • We observed generation of stable picoseconds pulse train and double-scale optical lumps with picosecond envelope and femtosecond noise-like oscillations in the same Yb-doped fiber...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.20800-20805 (2009)
  • Huang, J Y; Zhuang, W Z; Huang, W C; Su, K W; Hu, C; Huang, K F; Chen, Y F
  • We demonstrate comparative studies for Cr4+:YAG crystal and AlGaInAs quantum-well (QW) used as a saturable absorbers in passively Q-switched Yb-doped fiber lasers. Both...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.20816-20823 (2009)
  • Nawata, K; Okida, M; Furuki, K; Miyamoto, K; Omatsu, T
  • We demonstrated >80 W picosecond output at a pulse repetition frequency of 100 MHz from a dual Nd:YVO4 amplifier laser system consisting of a phase-conjugate...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3472-3474 (2009)
  • Li, Kang; Yao, Aiyun; Copner, N J; Gawith, C B E; Knight, Ian G; Pfeiffer, Hans-Ulrich; Musk, Bob
  • A compact green laser of 1.3 W output at 534.7 nm is generated by intracavity frequency doubling (ICFD) of a 49 edge-emitter laser bar using a MgO-doped (PPLN) bulk crystal. The...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3493-3495 (2009)
  • Geng, Jihong; Wang, Qing; Luo, Tao; Jiang, Shibin; Amzajerdian, Farzin
  • Single-frequency laser operation near 2 μm has been demonstrated in an all-fiber short-cavity (2-6 cm) distributed feedback laser cavity using both cladding- and core-pump...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3511-3513 (2009)
  • Kaneda, Yushi; Fallahi, Mahmoud; Hader, Jörg; Moloney, Jerome V; Koch, Stephan W; Kunert, Bernardette; Stoltz, Wolfgang
  • Up to 136 mW of cw single-frequency output at 295 nm was obtained from a frequency-quadrupled optically pumped semiconductor laser. The highly strained InGaAs quantum-well...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3526-3528 (2009)
  • Kelleher, E J R; Travers, J C; Ippen, E P; Sun, Z; Ferrari, A C; Popov, S V; Taylor, J R
  • We evaluate the shape and chirp of nanosecond pulses from a fiber laser passively mode locked with a nanotube-based saturable absorber by using a synchronously scanning streak camera...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3574-3576 (2009)
  • Fotiadi, Andrei A; Zakharov, Nikita; Antipov, Oleg L; Mégret, Patrice
  • We propose a simple all-fiber solution for coherent beam combining of Er-doped fiber amplifiers. This method, which we believe to be a new method, employs the effect of refractive...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3586-3588 (2009)
  • Andreasen, Jonathan; Cao, Hui
  • We report on the creation of new lasing modes with spatially nonuniform profiles of optical gain in a one-dimensional random structure. It is demonstrated numerically that even...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.20872-20877 (2009)
  • Wu, Ka S; Ottaway, David; Munch, Jesper; Lancaster, David G; Bennetts, Shayne; Jackson, Stuart D
  • We demonstrate the first gain-switched, singly doped, single-mode holmium-doped silicate glass fibre laser that operates at 2.106μm. Using a gain-switched 1.909-μm thulium-doped...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.20885-20890 (2009)
  • Pedersen, Christian; Karamehmedovic, Emir; Dam, Jeppe Seidelin; Tidemand-Lichtenberg, Peter
  • Based on enhanced upconversion, we demonstrate a highly efficient method for converting a full image from one part of the electromagnetic spectrum into a new desired wavelength...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.20911-20919 (2009)
  • Jiang, Xiaoshun; Lin, Qiang; Rosenberg, Jessie; Vahala, Kerry; Painter, Oskar
  • We design a double-disk microcavity consisting of a pair of silica microdisks separated by a nanoscale gap region on a silicon chip for cavity optomechanics. We show that this type...

  • JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 12, pp.2228-2236 (2009)
  • Maclean, A J; Birch, R B; Roth, P W; Kemp, A J; Burns, D
  • The semiconductor disk laser (SDL) is a versatile laser source offering multiwatt-level output powers and diffraction limited beams. While an approach to thermal management based on...

  • JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 12, pp.2242-2247 (2009)
  • Peng, Fei; Yao, Baoli; Yan, Shaohui; Zhao, Wei; Lei, Ming
  • Azimuthally polarized beams, focused by a high-numerical-aperture (NA) objective lens, form a hollow intensity distribution near the focus, which is appropriate for trapping...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.21091-21097 (2009)
  • Fordell, T; Miranda, M; Persson, A; L'Huillier, A
  • This article reports on the successful stabilization of the carrier-envelope phase of a 1-kHz laser system that includes a large grating stretcher, a regenerative amplifier, a...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 23, pp.21257-21270 (2009)
  • Tsai, Tsung-Han; Zhou, Chao; Adler, Desmond C; Fujimoto, James G
  • We demonstrate a frequency comb (FC) swept laser and a frequency comb Fourier domain mode locked (FC-FDML) laser for applications in optical coherence tomography (OCT). The...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21427-21432 (2009)
  • Henningsen, Jes
  • Single transverse mode oscillation is realized in a conventional HeNe laser outside the stability region of the optical resonator. Depending on the mirror separation different...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21442-21451 (2009)
  • Martinez Avila, Jhon F; Rios Leite, J R
  • Isochrony and time leadership was studied in the synchronized excitable behavior of coupled chaotic diode lasers. Each unit of the system had chaos due to feedback with a fixed delay...

  • JOSA B, Vol. 26 Issue 12, pp.2290-2300 (2009)
  • Ding, Edwin; Kutz, J Nathan
  • We develop an iterative (averaging) method to characterize the mode-locking dynamics in a laser cavity mode locked with a combination of wave plates and a passive polarizer. The...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21615-21627 (2009)
  • Otsuka, K; Chu, S -C; Lin, C -C; Tokunaga, K; Ohtomo, T
  • To provide the underlying physical mechanism for formations of spatial- and polarization-entangled lasing patterns (namely, SPEPs), we performed experiments using a c-cut...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21628-21633 (2009)
  • Tsai, Tzong-Yow; Fang, Yen-Cheng
  • We demonstrate a self-Q-switched, all-fiber, tunable, erbium laser at 1530 nm with high pulse repetition rates of 0.9-10 kHz. Through the use of an auxiliary 10-mW, 1570 nm laser...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21652-21665 (2009)
  • Reyné, Stéphane; Duchateau, Guillaume; Natoli, Jean-Yves; Lamaignère, Laurent
  • We investigate the influence of THG-cut KDP crystal orientation on laser damage at 1064 nm under nanosecond pulses. Since laser damage is now assumed to initiate on precursor...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21691-21697 (2009)
  • Duan, Xiaoming; Yao, Baoquan; Li, Gang; Ju, Youlun; Wang, Yuezhu; Zhao, Guangjun
  • We present the room temperature Q-switched performances of a Ho:LuAG laser operated at 2.1μm. At the repetition rate of 10kHz, the maximum average output power of 9.9W with a slope...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21698-21703 (2009)
  • Tsutsumi, Naoto; Ishibashi, Takashi
  • The paper presents polymeric waveguide dye laser with distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) grating or distributed feedback (DFB) resonator. DBR grating and DFB resonator were fabricated...

  • Applied Optics, Vol. 48 Issue 33, pp.6475-6478 (2009)
  • Guo, Xiaomin; Wang, Xuyang; Li, Yongmin; Zhang, Kuanshou
  • We describe continuous wave single-frequency operation of an intracavity frequency-doubled Nd:YLF ring laser end-pumped by a fiber-coupled laser diode. Output power of 770 mW has...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21773-21781 (2009)
  • He, Xiaoying; Fang, Xia; Liao, Changrui; Wang, D N; Sun, Junqiang
  • A simple linear cavity erbium-doped fiber laser based on a Fabry-Perot filter which consists of a pair of fiber Bragg gratings is proposed for tunable and switchable...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21782-21787 (2009)
  • Schlosser, Peter J; Hastie, Jennifer E; Calvez, Stephane; Krysa, Andrey B; Dawson, Martin D
  • Multiple layers of InP QDs, self-assembled during epitaxial growth, were incorporated into the active region of an (AlxGa1-x)0.51In0.49P...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21788-21793 (2009)
  • Choi, Sun Young; Rotermund, Fabian; Jung, Hojoong; Oh, Kyunghwan; Yeom, Dong-Il
  • We propose a novel in-line saturable absorber incorporating a hollow optical fiber (HOF) filled with single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) dispersion. The evanescent field of the...

  • JOSA A, Vol. 26 Issue 12, pp.2571-2576 (2009)
  • Wang, Kuilong; Zhao, Chengliang
  • Based on the definition of fractional Fourier transform (FRT), the propagation properties of an anomalous hollow beam (AHB) through the FRT have been investigated in detail. An...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21813-21818 (2009)
  • Ding, Ye; Yang, Qing; Guo, Xin; Wang, Shanshan; Gu, Fuxing; Fu, Jian; Wan, Qing; Cheng, Jipeng; Tong, Limin
  • We demonstrate a compact hybrid structure red-green-ultraviolet three-color laser consisting of three distinct semiconductor nanowires (CdSe, CdS and ZnO) attached to a silica...

  • Optics Express, Vol. 17 Issue 24, pp.21837-21842 (2009)
  • Gao, Song; Liu, Huan; Wang, Dongsheng; Gong, Mali
  • Ray-tracing algorithm was used to simulate the pump absorption efficiency and pump absorption distribution of LD corner-pumped laser with different parameters of Nd:YAG composite...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 23, pp.3601-3603 (2009)
  • Dehez, Harold; Piché, Michel; De Koninck, Yves
  • We have experimentally demonstrated that the resolution of a commercial two-photon microscope is improved using a TM01 laser beam. With a water immersion objective having...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 23, pp.3616-3618 (2009)
  • Wang, Q; Geng, J; Luo, T; Jiang, S
  • We report self-starting passively mode-locked fiber lasers with a saturable absorber mirror using a piece of 30-cm-long newly developed highly thulium (Tm)-doped silicate glass...

  • Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 23, pp.3707-3709 (2009)
  • Millo, J; Boudot, R; Lours, M; Bourgeois, P Y; Luiten, A N; Coq, Y Le; Kersalé, Y; Santarelli, G
  • In this Letter we report on an all-optical-fiber approach to the generation of ultra-low-noise microwave signals. We make use of two erbium fiber mode-locked lasers phase locked to a...
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