Photonics Research | April 2007
Most solid-state lasers — with the notable exceptions of glass and fiber lasers — are based on a rare-earth dopant in a crystalline host material....
Because most molecules have unique vibrational spectra in the mid-infrared region (mid-IR is often defined as the region from 3 to 30 μm),...
Ytterbium-doped KY(WO4)2 (also called double tungstate) is an excellent laser material because it has high emission and absorption cross sections as...
Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder have shown how to accomplish quasi-phasematching in ionized gases, thereby enabling enhancements...
When an application requires precise control of the timing and frequency of a Q-switched laser’s pulses, active Q-switching is the only way to go....
As scientists and engineers push fiber lasers to ever-higher output powers, they have encountered severe nonlinear effects that are a stubborn...