Virtual Focus Issue

Focus issue introduction: Advanced Solid-State Lasers (ASSL) 2015

Katia Gallo, Yoonchan Jeong, Takunori Taira, Shibin Jiang, and F. Ömer Ilday

Opt. Express 24(5), 5674-5682 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Analysis of the optimal temperature for the cryogenic monolithic Nd:YAG laser at 946-nm

C. Y. Cho, T. L. Huang, H. P. Cheng, K. F. Huang, and Y. F. Chen

Opt. Express 24(1), 1-8 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

High power Nd:YAG spinning disk laser

Andrew P. Ongstad, Matthew Guy, and Joeseph R. Chavez

Opt. Express 24(1), 108-113 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

High power fiber MOPA based QCW laser delivering pulses with arbitrary duration on demand at high modulation bandwidth

Rok Petkovšek, Vid Novak, and Vid Agrež

Opt. Express 23(26), 33150-33156 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

High-energy, sub-100 fs, all-fiber stretched-pulse mode-locked Er-doped ring laser with a highly-nonlinear resonator

Dmitriy A. Dvoretskiy, Vladimir A. Lazarev, Vasiliy S. Voropaev, Zhanna N. Rodnova, Stanislav G. Sazonkin, Stanislav O. Leonov, Alexey B. Pnev, Valeriy E. Karasik, and Alexander A. Krylov

Opt. Express 23(26), 33295-33300 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhanced pump absorption efficiency in coiled and twisted double-clad thulium-doped fibers

Pavel Koška, Pavel Peterka, Jan Aubrecht, Ondřej Podrazký, Filip Todorov, Martin Becker, Yauhen Baravets, Pavel Honzátko, and Ivan Kašík

Opt. Express 24(1), 102-107 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Picosecond 34 mJ pulses at kHz repetition rates from a Ho:YLF amplifier at 2 µm wavelength

Lorenz von Grafenstein, Martin Bock, Dennis Ueberschaer, Uwe Griebner, and Thomas Elsaesser

Opt. Express 23(26), 33142-33149 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Design of a thin disk amplifier with extraction during pumping for high peak and average power Ti:Sa systems (EDP-TD)

Vladimir Chvykov, Roland S. Nagymihaly, Huabao Cao, Mikhail Kalashnikov, and Karoly Osvay

Opt. Express 24(4), 3721-3733 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

High-peak-power optically-pumped AlGaInAs eye-safe laser with a silicon wafer as an output coupler: comparison between the stack cavity and the separate cavity

C. P. Wen, P. H. Tuan, H. C. Liang, C. H. Tsou, K. W. Su, K. F. Huang, and Y. F. Chen

Opt. Express 23(24), 30749-30754 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Microchip laser operation of Yb-doped gallium garnets

Josep Maria Serres, Venkatesan Jambunathan, Pavel Loiko, Xavier Mateos, Haohai Yu, Huaijin Zhang, Junhai Liu, Antonio Lucianetti, Tomas Mocek, Konstantin Yumashev, Uwe Griebner, Valentin Petrov, Magdalena Aguiló, and Francesc Díaz

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 46-57 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Effect of erbium concentration on spectroscopic properties and 2.79 μm laser performance of Er:CaF₂ crystals

Weiwei Ma, Liangbi Su, Xiaodong Xu, Jingya Wang, Dapeng Jiang, Lihe Zheng, Xiuwei Fan, Chun Li, Jie Liu, and Jun Xu

Opt. Mater. Express 6(2), 409-415 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Ultra-short pulses UV lasing in multifunctional Ce:LiY_0.3Lu_0.7F₄ active medium

I. I. Farukhshin, A. S. Nizamutdinov, S. L. Korableva, and V. V. Semashko

Opt. Mater. Express 6(4), 1131-1137 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Cryogenically-cooled Yb:YGAG ceramic mode-locked laser

J. Mužík, M. Jelínek, V. Jambunathan, T. Miura, M. Smrž, A. Endo, T. Mocek, and V. Kubeček

Opt. Express 24(2), 1402-1408 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

High Verdet constant of Ti-doped terbium aluminum garnet (TAG) ceramics

Hiroaki Furuse, Ryo Yasuhara, Keijiro Hiraga, and Shengming Zhou

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 191-196 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

SESAM mode-locked Tm:CALGO laser at 2 µm

Yicheng Wang, Guoqiang Xie, Xiaodong Xu, Juqing Di, Zhipeng Qin, Soile Suomalainen, Mircea Guina, Antti Härkönen, Antonio Agnesi, Uwe Griebner, Xavier Mateos, Pavel Loiko, and Valentin Petrov

Opt. Mater. Express 6(1), 131-136 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

High power, high repetition rate, few picosecond Nd:LuVO₄ oscillator with cavity dumping

Peng Gao, Jie Guo, Jinfeng Li, Hua Lin, Haohai Yu, Huaijin Zhang, and Xiaoyan Liang

Opt. Express 23(26), 32881-32887 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Intracavity-pumped, cascaded AgGaSe₂ optical parametric oscillator tunable from 5.8 to 18 µm

Andrey A. Boyko, Georgi M. Marchev, Valentin Petrov, Valdas Pasiskevicius, Dmitry B. Kolker, Andrius Zukauskas, and Nadezhda Y. Kostyukova

Opt. Express 23(26), 33460-33465 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

High-gain mid-infrared optical-parametric generation pumped by microchip laser

Hideki Ishizuki and Takunori Taira

Opt. Express 24(2), 1046-1052 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Ignition of an automobile engine by high-peak power Nd:YAG/Cr⁴⁺:YAG laser-spark devices

Nicolaie Pavel, Traian Dascalu, Gabriela Salamu, Mihai Dinca, Niculae Boicea, and Adrian Birtas

Opt. Express 23(26), 33028-33037 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Giant-pulse Nd:YVO₄ microchip laser with MW-level peak power by emission cross-sectional control

Arvydas Kausas and Takunori Taira

Opt. Express 24(4), 3137-3149 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

High-average-power, 50-fs parametric amplifier front-end at 1.55 μm

Mark Mero, Frank Noack, Florian Bach, Valentin Petrov, and Marc J. J. Vrakking

Opt. Express 23(26), 33157-33163 (2015)  View: HTML | PDF

Multi-Watt mid-IR femtosecond polycrystalline Cr²⁺:ZnS and Cr²⁺:ZnSe laser amplifiers with the spectrum spanning 2.0–2.6 µm

Sergey Vasilyev, Igor Moskalev, Mike Mirov, Sergey Mirov, and Valentin Gapontsev

Opt. Express 24(2), 1616-1623 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF