Focus issue introduction: Advanced Solid-State Lasers (ASSL) 2016

Yoonchan Jeong, Christian Kränkel, Almantas Galvanauskas, Kenneth Schepler, Takunori Taira, and Shibin Jiang

Opt. Express 25(8), 8604-8610 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Modal content measurements (S²) of negative curvature hollow-core photonic crystal fibers

V. Bock, M. Plötner, O. De Vries, J. Nold, N. Haarlammert, T. Schreiber, R. Eberhardt, and A. Tünnermann

Opt. Express 25(4), 3006-3012 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Liquid-cooled Ti:Sapphire thin disk amplifiers for high average power 100-TW systems

R. S. Nagymihaly, H. Cao, D. Papp, G. Hajas, M. Kalashnikov, K. Osvay, and V. Chvykov

Opt. Express 25(6), 6664-6677 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Self-swept holmium fiber laser near 2100 nm

Jan Aubrecht, Pavel Peterka, Pavel Koška, Ondřej Podrazký, Filip Todorov, Pavel Honzátko, and Ivan Kašík

Opt. Express 25(4), 4120-4125 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Sub-nanosecond laser induced air-breakdown with giant-pulse duration tuned Nd:YAG ceramic micro-laser by cavity-length control

Hwan Hong Lim and Takunori Taira

Opt. Express 25(6), 6302-6310 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

High-power Yb:GGG thin-disk laser oscillator: first demonstration and power-scaling prospects

A. Diebold, Z. Jia, I. J. Graumann, Y. Yin, F. Emaury, C. J. Saraceno, X. Tao, and U. Keller

Opt. Express 25(2), 1452-1462 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

High repetition rate, femtosecond and picosecond laser induced damage thresholds of Rb:KTiOPO₄ at 1.03 µm

Florian Bach, Mark Mero, Valdas Pasiskevicius, Andrius Zukauskas, and Valentin Petrov

Opt. Mater. Express 7(3), 744-750 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Comparative spectroscopic and thermo-optic study of Tm:LiLnF₄ (Ln = Y, Gd, and Lu) crystals for highly-efficient microchip lasers at ~2 μm

Pavel Loiko, Josep Maria Serres, Xavier Mateos, Simone Tacchini, Mauro Tonelli, Stefano Veronesi, Daniela Parisi, Alberto Di Lieto, Konstantin Yumashev, Uwe Griebner, and Valentin Petrov

Opt. Mater. Express 7(3), 844-854 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Ytterbium-doped-garnet crystal waveguide lasers grown by pulsed laser deposition

Stephen J. Beecher, James A. Grant-Jacob, Ping Hua, Jake J. Prentice, Robert W. Eason, David P. Shepherd, and Jacob I. Mackenzie

Opt. Mater. Express 7(5), 1628-1633 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Semiconductor saturable absorber Q-switching of a holmium micro-laser

Ruijun Lan, Xavier Mateos, Yicheng Wang, Josep Maria Serres, Pavel Loiko, Jiang Li, Yubai Pan, Uwe Griebner, and Valentin Petrov

Opt. Express 25(5), 4579-4584 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Temperature stable operation of YCOB crystal for giant-pulse green microlaser

Arvydas Kausas, Pascal Loiseau, Gerard Aka, Yanqing Zheng, Lihe Zheng, and Takunori Taira

Opt. Express 25(6), 6431-6439 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Accurate measurement of electro-optic coefficients of undoped and MgO-doped stoichiometric LiNbO₃

Shota Nakano, Kazuki Akiyama, and Ichiro Shoji

Opt. Mater. Express 7(3), 939-944 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Fabrication of quasi-phase-matching stacks of GaAs plates using a new technique: room-temperature bonding

Terumitsu Kubota, Hiroki Atarashi, and Ichiro Shoji

Opt. Mater. Express 7(3), 932-938 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

High average power parametric wavelength conversion at 3.31–3.48 μm in MgO:PPLN

R. T. Murray, T. H. Runcorn, S. Guha, and J. R. Taylor

Opt. Express 25(6), 6421-6430 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Wavelength-agile high-power sources via four-wave mixing in higher-order fiber modes

J. Demas, G. Prabhakar, T. He, and S. Ramachandran

Opt. Express 25(7), 7455-7464 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

High-average-power, 2-μm femtosecond optical parametric oscillator synchronously pumped by a thin-disk, mode-locked laser

T. Petersen, J. D. Zuegel, and J. Bromage

Opt. Express 25(8), 8840-8844 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Model for the polarization dependence of the saturable absorption in Cr⁴⁺:YAG

Yoichi Sato and Takunori Taira

Opt. Mater. Express 7(2), 577-586 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

41-fs, 35-nJ, Green Pulse Generation from a Yb-doped Fiber Laser System

Hideyuki Takada, Yuhei Chiba, Dai Yoshitomi, Kenji Torizuka, and Kazuhiko Misawa

Opt. Express 25(3), 2115-2120 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Generation of sub-20-fs pulses from a graphene mode-locked laser

Ferda Canbaz, Nurbek Kakenov, Coskun Kocabas, Umıt Demırbas, and Alphan Sennaroglu

Opt. Express 25(3), 2834-2839 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Numerical study on multi-pulse dynamics and shot-to-shot coherence property in quasi-mode-locked regimes of a highly-pumped anomalous dispersion fiber ring cavity

Youngchul Kwon, Luis Alonso Vazquez-Zuniga, Seungjong Lee, Hyuntai Kim, and Yoonchan Jeong

Opt. Express 25(4), 4456-4469 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF

Performance and wavelength tuning of green emitting terbium lasers

Philip Werner Metz, Daniel-Timo Marzahl, Günter Huber, and Christian Kränkel

Opt. Express 25(5), 5716-5724 (2017)  View: HTML | PDF