Feature issue introduction: advances in optical materials

Takunori Taira and Jas Sanghera

Opt. Mater. Express 2(8), 1171-1175 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Narrow linewidth 1118/559 nm VECSEL based on strain compensated GaInAs/GaAs quantum-wells for laser cooling of Mg-ions

Sanna Ranta, Miki Tavast, Tomi Leinonen, Ryan Epstein, and Mircea Guina

Opt. Mater. Express 2(8), 1011-1019 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Spectroscopic and laser properties of resonantly (in-band) pumped Er:YVO₄ and Er:GdVO₄ crystals: a comparative study

Nikolay Ter-Gabrielyan, Viktor Fromzel, Witold Ryba-Romanowski, Tadeusz Lukasiewicz, and Mark Dubinskii

Opt. Mater. Express 2(8), 1040-1049 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Temperature dependencies of stimulated emission cross section for Nd-doped solid-state laser materials

Yoichi Sato and Takunori Taira

Opt. Mater. Express 2(8), 1076-1087 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Effects of growth pressure on erbium doped GaN infrared emitters synthesized by metal organic chemical vapor deposition

I-Wen Feng, Jing Li, Jingyu Lin, Hongxing Jiang, and John Zavada

Opt. Mater. Express 2(8), 1095-1100 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Tm:YLF slab wavelength-selected laser

H. J. Strauss, M. J. D. Esser, G. King, and L. Maweza

Opt. Mater. Express 2(8), 1165-1170 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Growth of large 90 mm diameter Yb:YAG single crystals with Bagdasarov method

M. Arzakantsyan, N. Ananyan, V. Gevorgyan, and J.-C. Chanteloup

Opt. Mater. Express 2(9), 1219-1225 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Hollow-core Optical Fiber Gas Lasers (HOFGLAS): a review [Invited]

A. V. Vasudevan Nampoothiri, Andrew M. Jones, C. Fourcade-Dutin, Chenchen Mao, Neda Dadashzadeh, Bastian Baumgart, Y.Y. Wang, M. Alharbi, T. Bradley, Neil Campbell, F. Benabid, Brian R. Washburn, Kristan L. Corwin, and Wolfgang Rudolph

Opt. Mater. Express 2(7), 948-961 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Cobalt ferrite nanoparticles polymer composites based all-optical magnetometer

Alejandra Lopez-Santiago, Hannah R. Grant, Palash Gangopadhyay, Ramakrishna Voorakaranam, Robert A. Norwood, and N. Peyghambarian

Opt. Mater. Express 2(7), 978-986 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Quasi-phase-matched gallium arsenide for versatile mid-infrared frequency conversion

Arnaud Grisard, Eric Lallier, and Bruno Gérard

Opt. Mater. Express 2(8), 1020-1025 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Kerr versus thermal non-linear effects studied by hybrid whispering gallery mode resonators [Invited]

Tatyana V. Murzina, Gualtiero Nunzi Conti, Andrea Barucci, Simone Berneschi, Ilya Razdolskiy, and Silvia Soria

Opt. Mater. Express 2(8), 1088-1094 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Development of periodically oriented gallium nitride for non-linear optics [Invited]

Jennifer Hite, Mark Twigg, Michael Mastro, Jaime Freitas, Jerry Meyer, Igor Vurgaftman, Shawn O’Connor, Nicholas Condon, Fritz Kub, Steven Bowman, and Charles Eddy

Opt. Mater. Express 2(9), 1203-1208 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

> 3 MW peak power at 266 nm using Nd:YAG/ Cr⁴⁺:YAG microchip laser and fluxless-BBO

R. Bhandari, T. Taira, A. Miyamoto, Y. Furukawa, and T. Tago

Opt. Mater. Express 2(7), 907-913 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Mid-IR volumetric Bragg grating based on LiF color center crystal

Dmitry V. Martyshkin, Anton V. Fedorov, Anitha Arumugam, David J. Hilton, Vladimir V. Fedorov, and Sergey B. Mirov

Opt. Mater. Express 2(9), 1209-1218 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Polarized Raman mapping method for estimation of refractive index differences on grain-boundaries and in-line transmission properties of polycrystalline alumina

T. Hayakawa, S. Hayashi, S. Miyazawa, T. Ohashi, and K. Watanabe

Opt. Mater. Express 2(7), 914-919 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-photon polymerization technique with sub-50 nm resolution by sub-10 fs laser pulses

Moritz Emons, Kotaro Obata, Thomas Binhammer, Aleksandr Ovsianikov, Boris N. Chichkov, and Uwe Morgner

Opt. Mater. Express 2(7), 942-947 (2012)  View: HTML | PDF