Optica Publishing Group: 60 Significant Articles on the Laser by Decade
In celebration of 60 years of the laser science and laser applications, we are sharing this collection of significant articles published in Optica Publishing Group journals over the past 60 years—organized 10 per decade. This curated collection is meant to illustrate the depth and breadth of laser science that has been reported in our journals and is not meant to be comprehensive or exhaustive. It draws from different journal editor's best-of topical lists, lists of papers with the highest total citations, and input from Optica Publishing Group's current science advisors.
1960-1969
Continuous Optically Pumped Cs Laser
Appl. Opt., Vol. 1 Issue 4, pp. 513-516 (1962)
P. Rabinowitz, S. Jacobs, and G. Gould
Cited by 74
Stimulated Emission of Infrared Radiation from Ytterbium Activated Silicate Glass
Appl. Opt., Vol. 1 Issue 4, pp. 534-536 (1962)
H. W. Etzel, H. W. Gandy, and R. J. Ginther
Cited by 58
A Continuously Operating Ruby Optical Maser
Appl. Opt., Vol. 1 Issue 2, pp. 181-183 (1962)
D. F. Nelson and W. S. Boyle
Cited by 64
Amplification in a Fiber Laser
Appl. Opt., Vol. 3 Issue 10, pp. 1182-1186 (1964)
Charles J. Koester and Elias Snitzer
Cited by 296
Laser Beams and Resonators
Appl. Opt., Vol. 5 Issue 10, pp. 1550-1567 (1966)
H. Kogelnik and T. Li
Cited by 2104
Semiconductor Lasers
Appl. Opt., Vol. 5 Issue 10, pp. 1514-1528 (1966)
Marshall I. Nathan
Cited by 23
Glass Lasers
Appl. Opt., Vol. 5 Issue 10, pp. 1487-1499 (1966)
E. Snitzer
Cited by 84
Crystalline Solid Lasers
Appl. Opt., Vol. 5 Issue 10, pp. 1474-1486 (1966)
Z. J. Kiss and R. J. Pressley
Cited by 29
High-Resolution Raman Spectroscopy of Gases with cw-Laser Excitation*
J. Opt. Soc. Am., Vol. 57 Issue 1, pp. 19-28 (1967)
Alfons Weber, Sergio P. S. Porto, Leonard E. Cheesman, and Joseph J. Barrett
Cited by 104
Tunable Single Mode Operation of Gas Lasers Using Intracavity Tilted Etalons
Appl. Opt., Vol. 8 Issue 6, pp. 1103-1106 (1969)
Michael Hercher
Cited by 99
1970-1979
CO2 Laser Pumping by a dc–Tesla Coil Combination
Appl. Opt., Vol. 9 Issue 6, pp. 1485-1486 (1970)
W. I. Dobrov and E. R. Washwell
Cited by 1
Ultrahigh Speed Photography of Picosecond Light Pulses and Echoes
Appl. Opt., Vol. 10 Issue 9, pp. 2162-2170 (1971)
M. A. Duguay and A. T. Mattick
Cited by 167
Repetitively Pulsed Tunable Dye Laser for High Resolution Spectroscopy
Appl. Opt., Vol. 11 Issue 4, pp. 895-898 (1972)
T. W. Hänsch
Cited by 72
Unstable Optical Resonators
Appl. Opt., Vol. 13 Issue 2, pp. 353-367 (1974)
A. E. Siegman
Cited by 257
Laser feedback: its effect on laser frequency
Appl. Opt., Vol. 15 Issue 5, pp. 1119-1120 (1976)
Paul J. Brannon
Cited by 31
Transfer chemical laser: modeling of a cw DF–CO2 laser
Appl. Opt., Vol. 15 Issue 5, pp. 1164-1171 (1976)
S. W. Zelazny, J. A. Blauer, L. Wood, L. H. Sentman, and W. C. Solomon
Cited by 9
Generation of time-reversed wave fronts by nonlinear refraction*
J. Opt. Soc. Am., Vol. 67 Issue 1, pp. 1-3 (1977)
R. W. Hellwarth
Cited by 425
Spectrally narrow pulsed dye laser without beam expander
Appl. Opt., Vol. 17 Issue 14, pp. 2224-2227 (1978)
Michael G. Littman and Harold J. Metcalf
Cited by 543
Coherent trapping of atomic populations
Opt. Lett., Vol. 3 Issue 6, pp. 218-220 (1978)
H. R. Gray, R. M. Whitley, and C. R. Stroud
Cited by 680
Short-cavity picosecond dye laser design
Appl. Opt., Vol. 18 Issue 4, pp. 532-535 (1979)
A. J. Cox and Gary W. Scott
Cited by 15
1980-1989
Frequency-modulation spectroscopy: a new method for measuring weak absorptions and dispersions
Opt. Lett., Vol. 5 Issue 1, pp. 15-17 (1980)
Gary C. Bjorklund
Cited by 746
Self-pumped, continuous-wave phase conjugator using internal reflection
Opt. Lett., Vol. 7 Issue 10, pp. 486-488 (1982)
Jack Feinberg
Cited by 707
Scanning coherent anti-Stokes Raman microscope
Opt. Lett., Vol. 7 Issue 8, pp. 350-352 (1982)
M. D. Duncan, J. Reintjes, and T. J. Manuccia
Cited by 515
The soliton laser
Opt. Lett., Vol. 9 Issue 1, pp. 13-15 (1984)
L. F. Mollenauer and R. H. Stolen
Cited by 502
Monolithic, unidirectional single-mode Nd:YAG ring laser
Opt. Lett., Vol. 10 Issue 2, pp. 65-67 (1985)
Thomas J. Kane and Robert L. Byer
Cited by 555
Generation of optical pulses as short as 27 femtoseconds directly from a laser balancing self-phase modulation, group-velocity dispersion, saturable absorption, and saturable gain
Opt. Lett., Vol. 10 Issue 3, pp. 131-133 (1985)
J. A. Valdmanis, R. L. Fork, and J. P. Gordon
Cited by 377
Spectroscopic and laser characteristics of Ti:Al2O3
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Vol. 3 Issue 1, pp. 125-133 (1986)
P. F. Moulton
Cited by 1035
Observation of a single-beam gradient force optical trap for dielectric particles
Opt. Lett., Vol. 11 Issue 5, pp. 288-290 (1986)
A. Ashkin, J. M. Dziedzic, J. E. Bjorkholm, and Steven Chu
Cited by 5361
Laser stabilization at the millihertz level
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Vol. 5 Issue 8, pp. 1576-1587 (1988)
Ch. Salomon, D. Hils, and J. L. Hall
Cited by 193
High-resolution femtosecond pulse shaping
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Vol. 5 Issue 8, pp. 1563-1572 (1988)
A. M. Weiner, J. P. Heritage, and E. M. Kirschner
Cited by 598
1990-1999
Average power limits of diode-laser-pumped solid state lasers
Appl. Opt., Vol. 29 Issue 12, pp. 1765-1771 (1990)
Santanu Basu and Robert L. Byer
Cited by 25
60-fsec pulse generation from a self-mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser
Opt. Lett., Vol. 16 Issue 1, pp. 42-44 (1991)
D. E. Spence, P. N. Kean, and W. Sibbett
Cited by 1253
Generation of 11-fs pulses from a self-mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser
Opt. Lett., Vol. 18 Issue 12, pp. 977-979 (1993)
Melanie T. Asaki, Chung-Po Huang, Dennis Garvey, Jianping Zhou, Henry C. Kapteyn, and Margaret M. Murnane
Cited by 361
77-fs pulse generation from a stretched-pulse mode-locked all-fiber ring laser
Opt. Lett., Vol. 18 Issue 13, pp. 1080-1082 (1993)
K. Tamura, E. P. Ippen, H. A. Haus, and L. E. Nelson
Cited by 837
Subfemtosecond pulses
Opt. Lett., Vol. 19 Issue 22, pp. 1870-1872 (1994)
P. B. Corkum, N. H. Burnett, and M. Y. Ivanov
Cited by 536
Optical ablation by high-power short-pulse lasers
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Vol. 13 Issue 2, pp. 459-468 (1996)
B. C. Stuart, M. D. Feit, S. Herman, A. M. Rubenchik, B. W. Shore, and M. D. Perry
Cited by 531
Writing waveguides in glass with a femtosecond laser
Opt. Lett., Vol. 21 Issue 21, pp. 1729-1731 (1996)
K. M. Davis, K. Miura, N. Sugimoto, and K. Hirao
Cited by 2269
Compression of high-energy laser pulses below 5 fs
Opt. Lett., Vol. 22 Issue 8, pp. 522-524 (1997)
M. Nisoli, S. De Silvestri, O. Svelto, R. Szipöcs, K. Ferencz, Ch. Spielmann, S. Sartania, and F. Krausz
Cited by 858
Petawatt laser pulses
Opt. Lett., Vol. 24 Issue 3, pp. 160-162 (1999)
M. D. Perry, D. Pennington, B. C. Stuart, G. Tietbohl, J. A. Britten, C. Brown, S. Herman, B. Golick, M. Kartz, J. Miller, H. T. Powell, M. Vergino, and V. Yanovsky
Cited by 461
In vivo ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography
Opt. Lett., Vol. 24 Issue 17, pp. 1221-1223 (1999)
W. Drexler, U. Morgner, F. X. Kärtner, C. Pitris, S. A. Boppart, X. D. Li, E. P. Ippen, and J. G. Fujimoto
Cited by 750
2000-2009
Supercontinuum generation in tapered fibers
Opt. Lett., Vol. 25 Issue 19, pp. 1415-1417 (2000)
T. A. Birks, W. J. Wadsworth, and P. St. J. Russell
Cited by 730
Effective utilization of quantum-cascade distributed-feedback lasers in absorption spectroscopy
Appl. Opt., Vol. 39 Issue 24, pp. 4425-4430 (2000)
Anatoliy A. Kosterev, Robert F. Curl, Frank K. Tittel, Claire Gmachl, Federico Capasso, Deborah L. Sivco, James N. Baillargeon, Albert L. Hutchinson, and Alfred Y. Cho
Cited by 69
Generation of 5-fs pulses and octave-spanning spectra directly from a Ti:sapphire laser
Opt. Lett., Vol. 26 Issue 6, pp. 373-375 (2001)
R. Ell, U. Morgner, F. X. Kärtner, J. G. Fujimoto, E. P. Ippen, V. Scheuer, G. Angelow, T. Tschudi, M. J. Lederer, A. Boiko, and B. Luther-Davies
Cited by 371
Supercontinuum generation in air–silica microstructured fibers with nanosecond and femtosecond pulse pumping
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Vol. 19 Issue 4, pp. 765-771 (2002)
John M. Dudley, Laurent Provino, Nicolas Grossard, Hervé Maillotte, Robert S. Windeler, Benjamin J. Eggleton, and Stéphane Coen
Cited by 286
High power air-clad photonic crystal fibre laser
Opt. Express, Vol. 11 Issue 1, pp. 48-53 (2003)
W. J. Wadsworth, R. M. Percival, G. Bouwmans, J. C. Knight, and P. St. J. Russell
Cited by 155
Demonstration of a silicon Raman laser
Opt. Express, Vol. 12 Issue 21, pp. 5269-5273 (2004)
Ozdal Boyraz and Bahram Jalali
Cited by 640
Ytterbium-doped large-core fiber laser with 1.36 kW continuous-wave output power
Opt. Express, Vol. 12 Issue 25, pp. 6088-6092 (2004)
Y. Jeong, J. K. Sahu, D. N. Payne, and J. Nilsson
Cited by 773
Generation and characterization of the highest laser intensities (1022 W/cm2)
Opt. Lett., Vol. 29 Issue 24, pp. 2837-2839 (2004)
S.-W. Bahk, P. Rousseau, T. A. Planchon, V. Chvykov, G. Kalintchenko, A. Maksimchuk, G. A. Mourou, and V. Yanovsky
Cited by 373
Electrically pumped hybrid AlGaInAs-silicon evanescent laser
Opt. Express, Vol. 14 Issue 20, pp. 9203-9210 (2006)
Alexander W. Fang, Hyundai Park, Oded Cohen, Richard Jones, Mario J. Paniccia, and John E. Bowers
Cited by 1008
Ultra-high intensity- 300-TW laser at 0.1 Hz repetition rate.
Opt. Express, Vol. 16 Issue 3, pp. 2109-2114 (2008)
V. Yanovsky, V. Chvykov, G. Kalinchenko, P. Rousseau, T. Planchon, T. Matsuoka, A. Maksimchuk, J. Nees, G. Cheriaux, G. Mourou, and K. Krushelnick
Cited by 619
2010-2019
High-power widely tunable thulium fiber lasers
Appl. Opt., Vol. 49 Issue 32, pp. 6236-6242 (2010)
Timothy S. McComb, R. Andrew Sims, Christina C. C. Willis, Pankaj Kadwani, Vikas Sudesh, Lawrence Shah, and Martin Richardson
Cited by 88
Attosecond photon sources: the first decade and beyond [Invited]
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Vol. 27 Issue 11, pp. B9-B17 (2010)
Zenghu Chang and P. Corkum
Cited by 118
The evolving optical frequency comb [Invited]
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Vol. 27 Issue 11, pp. B51-B62 (2010)
Scott A. Diddams
Cited by 505
Femtosecond fiber CPA system emitting 830 W average output power
Opt. Lett., Vol. 35 Issue 2, pp. 94-96 (2010)
Tino Eidam, Stefan Hanf, Enrico Seise, Thomas V. Andersen, Thomas Gabler, Christian Wirth, Thomas Schreiber, Jens Limpert, and Andreas Tünnermann
Cited by 531
Octave-spanning frequency comb generation in a silicon nitride chip
Opt. Lett., Vol. 36 Issue 17, pp. 3398-3400 (2011)
Yoshitomo Okawachi, Kasturi Saha, Jacob S. Levy, Y. Henry Wen, Michal Lipson, and Alexander L. Gaeta
Cited by 456
Tailoring a 67 attosecond pulse through advantageous phase-mismatch
Opt. Lett., Vol. 37 Issue 18, pp. 3891-3893 (2012)
Kun Zhao, Qi Zhang, Michael Chini, Yi Wu, Xiaowei Wang, and Zenghu Chang
Cited by 502
Fiber lasers and their applications [Invited]
Appl. Opt., Vol. 53 Issue 28, pp. 6554-6568 (2014)
Wei Shi, Qiang Fang, Xiushan Zhu, R. A. Norwood, and N. Peyghambarian
Cited by 379
260-megahertz, megawatt-level thin-disk oscillator
Opt. Lett., Vol. 40 Issue 8, pp. 1627-1630 (2015)
Jinwei Zhang, Jonathan Brons, Nikolai Lilienfein, Elena Fedulova, Vladimir Pervak, Dominik Bauer, Dirk Sutter, Zhiyi Wei, Alexander Apolonski, Oleg Pronin, and Ferenc Krausz
Cited by 20
Quantum cascade lasers: 20 years of challenges
Opt. Express, Vol. 23 Issue 4, pp. 5167-5182 (2015)
Miriam Serena Vitiello, Giacomo Scalari, Benjamin Williams, and Paolo De Natale
Cited by 403
Soliton frequency comb at microwave rates in a high-Q silica microresonator
Optica, Vol. 2 Issue 12, pp. 1078-1085 (2015)
Xu Yi, Qi-Fan Yang, Ki Youl Yang, Myoung-Gyun Suh, and Kerry Vahala
Cited by 430