Femtosecond thin disk Yb:KYW regenerative amplifier without CPA

A. Beyertt, D. Müller, D. Nickel, and A. Giesen

407 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

76 W average power femtosecond fiber CPA system

J. Limpert, T. Clausnitzer, T. Schreiber, A. Liem, H. Zellmer, H.-J. Fuchs, E.-B. Kley, and A. Tünnermann

414 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

20 W single-frequency, near diffraction-limited, linearly polarized laser based on a Yb fiber pre-amplifier and self-imaging Nd: YAG waveguide power amplifier

J. Koroshetz, B. Tiemann, D. Smith, I. McKinnie, J. Unternahrer, and P. Schlup

419 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Power scaling of diffraction limited, single frequency lasers for LIGO

Shailendhar Saraf, Supriyo Sinha, Arun Kumar Sridharan, and Robert L. Byer

426 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

A Diode-Pumped, Q-Switched, Nd: YLF Laser Using a Prismatic Pump Cavity

Bhabana Pati, Kevin F. Wall, and Peter F. Moulton

432 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Efficient laser operation of an Yb: S-FAP crystal at 985 nm

Sylvie Yiou, François Balembois, Patrick Georges, and Kathleen Schaffers

438 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

The spectroscopic properties and laser characteristics of polycrystalline Nd: Y3ScxAl(5-x)O12 laser media

Yoichi Sato, Ichiro Shoji, Takunori Taira, and Akio Ikesue

444 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Sub-40-fs pulses with 18-W average power from a passively mode-locked thin disk Yb: YAG laser with nonlinear fiber compression

F. Brunner, T. Südmeyer, E. Innerhofer, R. Paschotta, U. Keller, K. Furusawa, J. C. Baggett, T. M. Monro, and D. J. Richardson

149 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

60-W average power in 810-fs pulses from a thin-disk Yb: YAG laser

E. Innerhofer, T. Südmeyer, F. Brunner, R. Häring, A. Aschwanden, R. Paschotta, C. Hönninger, M. Kumkar, and U. Keller

152 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Tuning of Compact Femtosecond Cr: LiSAF Lasers using a Novel Birefringent Filter Design

B. Stormont, I.G. Cormack, A. J. Kemp, B. Agate, C. T. A. Brown, W. Sibbett, and R. Szipöcs

155 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Tunable pulse-generating sources at 1.5 mm with 10-160 GHz repetition rate

S. Lecomte, L. Krainer, G. J. Spühler, K. J. Weingarten, R. Paschotta, and U. Keller

159 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Directly diode-pumped femtosecond Cr4+: YAG laser

Sergei Naumov, Evgeni Sorokin, and IrinaT. Sorokina

163 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

All-optical active mode locking with a nonlinear semiconductor modulator

W. Seitz, R. Ell, U. Morgner, T. R. Schibli, F. X. Kärtner, M. J. Lederer, and B. Braun

167 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Diode-pumped 100-fs lasers based on a new apatite-structure crystal: Yb3+:SrY4(SiO4)3O

P. Raybaut, F. Druon, S. Chénais, F. Balembois, P. Georges, R. Gaumé, B. Viana, D. Vivien, S. Dhellemmes, V. Ortiz, and C. Larat

170 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Femtosecond fiber-feedback OPO with 15.5 W average power based on periodically poled stoichiometric LiTaO3

T. Südmeyer, E. Innerhofer, F. Brunner, R. Paschotta, U. Keller, T. Usami, H. Ito, M. Nakamura, K. Kitamura, and D. C. Hanna

77 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Scalable coherent beam combining of fiber lasers

Akira Shirakawa, Tomoki Sekiguchi, Keigo Matsuo, and Ken-ichi Ueda

82 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

High power supercontinuum generation based on femtosecond fiber amplifier

T. Schreiber, J. Limpert, H. Zellmer, A. Tünnermann, and K. P. Hansen

89 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Self-compression effects and Raman soliton generation in a photonic crystal fiber seeded by a 100-fs-pulsed diode-pumped Yb-doped oscillator

F. Druon, N. Sanner, G. Lucas-Leclin, P. Georges, and John Dudley

96 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Tunable CW Er:YLF Diode-Pumped Laser

Alex Dergachev and Peter F. Moulton

3 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Ultra-efficient Ho:YAG laser end-pumped by a cladding-pumped Tm-doped silica fiber laser

A. Abdolvand, D. Y. Shen, L. J. Cooper, R. B. Williams, and W. A. Clarkson

7 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

High-Power and Q-Switched Cr:ZnSe Lasers

William J. Alford, Gregory J. Wagner, Amy C. Sullivan, Jennifer A. Keene, and Timothy J. Carrig

13 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Simultaneous Raman and optical parametric oscillation in periodically poled KTP

V. Pasiskevicius, A. Fragemann, and F. Laurell

243 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Periodical poling characteristics of 5mol% MgO-doped congruent LiNbO3 crystals at elevated temperature

Hideki Ishizuki, Ichiro Shoji, Takunori Taira, and Sunao Kurimura

248 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

3D-mapping of effective second-order nonlinearity in periodically poled crystals

V. Pasiskevicius, S. J. Holmgren, S. Wang, and F. Laurell

254 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Widely tunable, aluminum-free, GaSb-based, mid-infrared semiconductor lasers

A. K. Goyal, G. W. Turner, A. Sanchez, M. J. Manfra, P. J. Foti, and P. O’Brien

395 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Erbium-Ytterbium doped active waveguides at 1.5 µm made by femtosecond micromaching

S. Taccheo, R. Osellame, G. Cerullo, M. Marangoni, D. Polli, S. De Silvestri, R. Ramponi, and P. Laporta

400 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

A 3.5 W 977 nm Cladding-pumped Jacketed Air-Clad Ytterbium-Doped Fiber Laser

K. H. Ylä-Jarkko, R. Selvas, D. B. S. Soh, J. K. Sahu, C. A. Codemard, J. Nilsson, S. A. Alam, and A. B. Grudinin

103 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Attosecond active synchronization of passively mode-locked lasers by balanced cross correlation

T. R. Schibli, J. Kim, O. Kuzucu, J. T. Gopinath, S. N. Tandon, G. S. Petrich, L. A. Kolodziejski, J. G. Fujimoto, E. P. Ippen, and F. X. Kaertner

108 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

20 Watt CW All-Solid-State 589-nm Sodium Beacon Excitation Source Based on Doubly Resonant Sum-Frequency Generation in LBO

Joshua C. Bienfang, Craig A. Denman, Brent W. Grime, Paul D. Hillman, Gerald T. Moore, and John M. Telle

111 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Diode Pumpable Rubidium Laser

William F. Krupke, Raymond J. Beach, V. Keith Kanz, and Stephen A. Payne

121 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Non-critically phase-matched second-harmonic generation in cesium lithium borate

Mark S. Bowers, Thomas M. Trautmann, and David C. Gerstenberger

127 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

All solid-state, 8-12 µm continuously tunable DIAL laser transmitter with patterncontrollable, rapid wavelength switching

Joseph M. Fukumoto, William Katata, Eric J. Griffin, Cynthia R. Swim, and Jay A. Fox

131 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

High-Power, High-Energy Diode-Pumped Tm: YLF-Ho:YLF-ZGP Laser System

Alex Dergachev and Peter F. Moulton

137 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Tm: YAlO3 Laser Pumped ZGP Mid-IR Source

L.A. Pomeranz, P.A. Ketteridge, P.A. Budni, K.M. Ezzo, D.M. Rines, and E.P. Chicklis

142 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Self-stimulating, Transversely Diode-pumped Nd3+: PbWO4 yellow laser

Akihide Hamano, Yoshiyuki Usuki, Takeshi, Watanabe, Masaaki Fujii, Yoshinori Iketaki, Kimihisa Yamamoto, and Takashige Omatsu

21 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Efficient laser performance of Nd:GdVO4 crystals grown by the floating zone method

Takayo Ogawa, Satoshi Wada, Koichi Onodera, Hiroshi Machida, Hideaki Sagae, Tomohiro Shonai, Mikio Higuchi, and Kohei Kodaira

26 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

CW Nd :YLF lasers for cold atom optical clocks and precision spectroscopy of hydrogenic systems

Y. Louyer, T. Badr, M.D. Plimmer, P. Juncar, M.E. Himbert, F. Balembois, and P. Georges

32 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Dispersive Tuning and Performance of a Pulsed Nd:YAG Laser

Norman P. Barnes, Brian M. Walsh, and Richard E. Davis

38 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Quadruple Pass Amplifier for a Q-switched 0.946 μm laser

Theresa J. Axenson, Norman P. Barnes, and Donald J. Reichle

42 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Laser oscillation with more than 80% slope efficiency in Nd:YVO4 under direct pumping into the emitting level

Yoichi Sato, Nicolaie Pavel, Takunori Taira, and Voicu Lupei

46 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Fiber-coupled diode laser for laser pumping and materials processing

Bodo Ehlers and Stefan Heinemann

51 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Spectral broadening and shift of the few optical cycle pulses in Cr4+:YAG laser

Vladimir L. Kalashnikov, Evgeni Sorokin, Sergei Naumov, and Irina T. Sorokina

177 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

CW Yb:YSO diode pumped laser emitting at 1003.4 nm for the realization of a stable frequency standard

Mathieu Jacquemet, François Balembois, Sébastien Chénais, Frédéric Druon, Patrick Georges, Romain Gaumé, Bruno Viana, Daniel Vivien, and Bernard Ferrand

184 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Efficient self-frequency Raman conversion in a passively Q-switched diode-pumped Yb:KGd(WO4)2 laser

V. E. Kisel, V. G. Shcherbitsky, and N. V. Kuleshov

189 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

CW and Q-switched operation of end-pumped thin-rod Yb:YAG lasers

Sakae Kawato, Shingo Takasaki, Masaaki Fukuda, Shinichi Matsubara, and T. Kobayashi

193 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Yb:S-FAP Multipass Side-Pumped Amplifier

Bhabana Pati, Yelena Isyanova, Kevin F. Wall, and Peter F. Moulton

197 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

A Tunable, Narrow Linewidth, 1 kHz Ce:LiCAF Laser with 46% Efficiency

Viktor A. Fromzel and Coorg R. Prasad

203 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Measurement of polarization-dependent loss mechanisms in Cr4+:YAG

Hua Liu, Judith Dawes, Peter Dekker, and James Piper

210 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Comparison of cobalt-activated spinel crystals grown by various methods as saturable absorbers for 1.3-1.6 μm lasers.

B. Denker, B. Galagan, V. Osiko, S. Sverchkov, G. Karlsson, and F. Laurell

216 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Thermal Lensing in Cr2+:ZnSe Face-Cooled Disks

Jason B. McKay, Won B. Roh, and Kenneth L. Schepler

220 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

The Local Vibration Absorption Band in the YAG:Cr4+crystal

A.G. Okhrimchuk and A.V. Shestakov

224 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Mode-locked ceramic Cr2+ :ZnSe laser

Evgeni Sorokin, IrinaT. Sorokina, Alberto Di Lieto, Mauro Tonelli, and Paolo Minguzzi

227 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Diode edge-pumped high power microchip composite Yb:YAG laser

T. Dascalu, T. Taira, and N. Pavel

231 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Numerical modeling of mid-IR OPO’s for beam quality studies with an implicit finite difference method

G. Renz

235 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Comparison of Tm-doped ZBLAN and Silicate Fiber Lasers Operating Near 2.0 Micrometers

Brian M. Walsh and Norman P. Barnes

287 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Fiber laser pumped Mid-IR source

Espen Lippert, Gunnar Arisholm, Gunnar Rustad, and Knut Stenersen

292 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Pulsed operation of a diode-side-pumped Tm,Ho:GdVO4 laser at room temperature

Atsushi Sato and Kazuhiro Asai

298 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Sensitization of MIR Tb3+ luminescence by Tm3+ ions in CsCdBr3 and KPb2Cl5 crystals

A. Okhrimchuk, L. Butvina, E. Dianov, N. Lichkova, and V. Zavgorodnev

303 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

A Double-pass Diode-pumped Tm: Ho: YLF Laser Amplifier at 2.05 µm

Songsheng Chen, Jirong Yu, Mulugeta Petros, Upendra N. Singh, and Yingxin Bai

309 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Diode pumped 135 mJ Ho: Tm: LuLF Oscillator

Mulugeta Petros, Jirong Yu, Songsheng Chen, Upendra N. Singh, Brian M. Walsh, Yingxhin Bai, and Norman P. Barnes

315 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

CW tunable midwave infrared generation near 4.5 µm

Da-Wun Chen

320 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Twin-pulse soliton emission of a passively mode-locked fiber ring laser

B. Zhao, D. Y. Tang, P. Shum, C. Lu, W. S. Man, and H. Y. Tam

327 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Tuning and dual wavelength operation of a ZGP OPO in the 8-11 micron range

Gunnar Rustad, Stephane Nicolas, Espen Lippert, Knut Stenersen, and Gunnar Arisholm

333 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Continuously tunable visible compact laser source using optical parametric generation in microlaser-pumped periodically poled lithium niobate

Emilie Hérault, Sébastien Forget, Gaëlle Lucas-Leclin, and Patrick Georges

339 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Improvement of spatial beam quality of laser sources with an intracavity Bragg grating

Sylvie Yiou, François Balembois, Patrick Georges, and Jean-Pierre Huignard

343 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Interferometric Measurements on a High Power Yb3+:YAG Laser

L.F. Rubin, K.C. Widen, and D.G. Harris

348 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Design of Space-Based Lasers

Floyd Hovis, Greg Witt, Ed Sullivan, Kevin Andes, Bill Suliga, Khoa Le, Elias Fakhoury, and Matt Fromm

59 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Multi-line Doppler/ DIAL Laser Radar Transmitter based on an OPO with High Idler Absorption

Scott E. Christensen, Joe Alford, John H. Marquardt, Iain T. McKinnie, Timothy J. Carrig, Philip Schlup, and Walter Bach

65 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

A continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator for mid infrared photoacoustic trace gas detection

Frank Müller, Alexander Popp, Frank Kühnemann, and Stephan Schiller

70 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Power scaling concepts for fiber lasers

W. A. Clarkson, L. J. Cooper, P. Wang, R. B. Williams, and J. K. Sahu

261 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Activation of the Mercury laser, a diode-pumped, gas-cooled, solid-state slab laser

A.J. Bayramian, R.J. Beach, W. Behrendt, C. Bibeau, R. Campbell, S.N. Dixit, C.A. Ebbers, B.L. Freitas, V.K. Kanz, M.C. Rushford, S.A. Payne, J. Schmidt, K.I. Schaffers, S. Telford, J.B. Tassano, A. DeWald, J. Rankin, and M.R. Hill

268 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

High-Quality, 4 ×6 cm2, Yb: S-FAP [Yb3+:Sr5(PO4)3F] Crystal Slabs for the Mercury Laser

K. I. Schaffers, J. B. Tassano, A.J. Bayramian, J. W. Dawson, C. Bibeau, S.A. Payne, R. C. Morris, M. H. Randles, A. DeWald, J. Rankin, and M. R. Hill

273 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Thin disk multi-pass amplifier

Daniel Müller, Steffen Erhard, Olivier Ronsin, and Adolf Giesen

278 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Miniature, High-Power 355-nm Laser System

J. J. Zayhowski and A. L. Wilson

357 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Diode-pumped sub-ns ultraviolet laser system operating at 1 MHz

Sébastien Forget, François Balembois, Frédéric Druon, and Patrick Georges

369 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

Efficient 355-nm laser using high-quality CsB3O5 crystal

H. Kitano, T. Matsui, K. Sato, M. Yoshimura, Y. Mori, T. Sasaki, Y. Wu, and C. Chen

373 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

CW 198.5-nm light generation in CLBO

Shinichi Imai, Hiromu Inoue, Takehiko Nomura, and Toru Tojo

380 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

A New Nonlinear Borate Crystal, BaAlBO3F2 for UV light Generation

Z. Hu, M. Yoshimura, K. Muramatsu, Y. Moria, and T. Sasaki

384 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF

High-power blue generation in a periodically poled MgO: LiNbO3 ridge-type waveguide by frequency doubling of a diode end-pumped Nd: YAG laser

N. Pavel, I. Shoji, T. Taira, M. Iwai, T. Yoshino, S. Yamaguchi, and M. Imaeda

388 Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSL) 2003 View: PDF