OSA | Advanced Solid State Lasers 1996

FC - Nonlinear Frequency Conversion

A new non linear oxoborate crystal, characterized by using femtosecond broadband pulses

G. Aka, L. Bloch, J. M. Benitez, P. Crochet, A. Kahn-Harari, D. Vivien, F. Salin, P. Coquelin, and D. Colin

FC1 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

High efficiency UV light generation by CLBO

Y. Mori, Y. K. Yap, M. Inagaki, S. Nakajima, A. Taguchi, W. L. Zhou, and T. Sasaki

FC2 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Ultraviolet application of Li2B4O7 crystals: generation of the fifth and fourth harmonic of Nd:YAG lasers

Ryuichi Komatsu, Tamotsu Sugawara, Koichi Sassa, Nobuhiko Sarukura, Zhenlin Liu, Shinji Izumida, Yusaburo Segawa, Satoshi Uda, Tsuguo Fukuda, and Kazuhiko Yamanouchi

FC3 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

560mW, Fifth Harmonic(213nm),200Hz Flashlamp Pumped Nd:YAG Laser System

Ruikun Wu, Michael J. Myers, John D. Myers, and Scott J. Hamlin

FC4 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

CW 355 nm Generation by Doubly-Resonant Sum-Frequency Mixing in an External Resonator

Yushi Kaneda and Shigeo Kubota

FC5 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Efficient intracavity frequency doubling of a room temperature cw 930nm Nd:YAlO3 laser

T. Kellner, F. Heine, B. Struve, V. Ostroumov, K. Petermann, and G. Huber

FC6 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

A Diode Array Pumped Continuous Wave Blue Microchip Laser

David G. Matthews, Neil MacKinnon, Richard S. Conroy, and Bruce D. Sinclair

FC7 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Compact frequency doubled diode laser at 491 nm

Daniel Fluck, Tomas Pliska, and Peter Günter

FC8 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Characteristics of LD-Pumped Nd:YAG Green Laser System

Yoichiro Maruyama, Masaki Ohba, Masaaki Kato, and Takashi Arisawa

FC9 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Analysis of incoherence effect of single-mode pump on second-harmonic generation

W. -L. Zhou, Y. Mori, T. Sasaki, and S. Nakai

FC10 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

HP - High Average-Power Lasers and Thermal Effects

High Power Operation of Nd:YAG Rod Lasers pumped by fiber-coupled diode lasers

D. Golla, M. Bode, S. Knoke, W. Schöne, F. von Alvensleben, and A. Tünnermann

HP1 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

High-brightness cw-500-W Nd: YAG rod laser

Koji Yasui

HP2 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

HIGH AVERAGE POWER DIODE ARRAY PUMPED FREQUENCY DOUBLED YAG LASER

B.J Le Garrec and G.J Razé

HP3 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Diode-pumped gas-cooled-slab laser performance

C. D. Marshall, L. K. Smith, S. Sutton, M. A. Emanuel, K. I. Schaffers, S. Mills, S. A. Payne, W. F. Krupke, and B. H. T. Chai

HP4 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

High power 2 µm wing-pumped Tm3+:YAG laser

R. J. Beach, S. B. Sutton, E. C. Honea, J. A. Skidmore, and M. A. Emanuel

HP5 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Compensation of polarization distortion of a laser beam in a four-pass Nd:glass amplifier by using a Faraday rotator

Jae Yong Lee, Hyun Su Kim, Ki Young Um, Jong Rak Park, and Hong Jin Kong

HP6 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Laser Beam Propagation in a Thermally Loaded Absorber

Alphan Sennaroglu, Attila Askar, and Fatihcan M. Atay

HP7 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Analysis of Thermal Effects in Crystalline Media using a Dual-Interferometer

J. M. Laurenzano, B. W. Liby, K. H. Greives, and J. O. Grannis

HP8 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

IL - Infrared Erbium, Thulium, and Holium Lasers

Room-temperature upconversion-pumped cw Yb,Er:YLiF4 laser at 1.234 µm

E. Heumann, P. Möbert, G. Huber, and B. H. T. Chai

IL1 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Distributed-Feedback Ring All-Fiber Laser

D. Yu. Stepanov, J. Canning, I. M. Bassett, and G. J. Cowle

IL2 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

1.55 µm-wavelength CW microchip lasers

Philippe Thony and Engin Molva

IL3 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Spectroscopic Properties and Laser Oscillation of Yb:Er:Ca2Al2SiO7 in the 1.55 µm eye-safe range

B. Simondi-Teisseire, B. Viana, A. M. Lejus, D. Vivien, C. Borel, R. Templier, and C. Wyon

IL4 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Quasi-cw Diode Pumped 2.8 µm Laser Operation of Er3+ -doped Garnets

T. Jensen, G. Huber, and K. Petermann

IL5 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Slope Efficiency of a Pulsed 2.8-µm Er3+:LiYF4 Laser

R. Spring, M. Pollnau, S. Wittwer, W. Lüthy, and H. P. Weber

IL6 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

2.5-Watt single-frequency CW Tm,Ho:YLF ring laser

Andrew Finch, John H. Flint, and David M. Rines

IL7 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Efficient single-transverse-mode laser-diode side-pumped thulium and holmium lasers - Modelling and experiment

Gunnar Rustad, Harald Hovland, and Knut Stenersen

IL8 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Lasing in diode-pumped thulium and thulium, holmium YAP

I. F. Elder and M. J. P. Payne

IL9 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

1 W CW 2.12 µm Lamp Pumped Room Temperature YAG:Yb-Ho Laser

A. A. Nikitichev and V. A. Pis'mennyi

IL10 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Laser operation and spectroscopy of Cr3+:Yb3+:Ln3+:YSGG

Yu. D. Zavartsev, A. A. Zagumennyi, V. V. Osiko, P. A. Studenikin, I. A. Shcherbakov, and A. F. Umyskov

IL11 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Continuous Wave Fiber Laser Operation at a Wavelength of 3.9 Micrometers

J. Scheider, C. Carbonnier, and U. B. Unrau

IL12 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

NL - Novel Neodymium Lasers

Characterisation of a pulsed high gain Nd:YVO4 amplifier

P. Dekker, J. M. Dawes, and J. A. Piper

NL1 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

High-Energy Subnanosecond Compact Laser System with Diode-Pumped, Q-Switched Nd:YVO4 Laser

Yukio Kyusho, Motohiro Arai, Katsuji Mukaihara, Tsuyoshi Yamane, Kazuaki Hotta, Yasuhiko Kuwano, and Seiichi Saito

NL2 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Miniature Nd:YAG Ring Lasers with High Single-Frequency Output Power at 946nm

I. Freitag, R. Henking, F. von Alvensleben, and A. Tünnermann

NL3 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Deformable Membrane Frequency Tuning of Microchip Lasers

J. A. Keszenheimer, F. Hakimi, J. Prince, A. Mooradian, and S. Humphrey

NL4 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

High Average Power Scaling of a Compact, Q-Switched, Diode Pumped, Nd:YAG Laser

J. L. Dallas and R. S. Afzal

NL5 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Precision Distance Measurements Using Frequency Stabilized Nd:YAG Lasers

V. Mahal, E. Inbar, and A. Arie

NL6 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Experimental and Theoretical Investigations on the Intensity Noise Properties of Injection-Locked Lasers

I. Freitag, A. Tünnermann, H. Welling, C. C. Harb, D. E. McClelland, H. -A. Bachor, and T. C. Ralph

NL7 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Narrow band volume holographic 532 nm optical filter

Michael A. Krainak, Anthony W. Yu, Joseph L. Dallas, and Robert S. Afzal

NL8 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Phase conjugator of the light beams based on Nd:YAG-rod with the reciprocal feedback

O. L. Antipov, S. I. Belyaev, and A. S. Kuzhelev

NL9 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

A novel design for high brightness fiber lasers pumped by high power diodes

P. Glas, M. Naumann, I. Reng, A. Schirrmacher, H. L. Dong, and J. Caplen

NL10 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Simultaneous lasing of Nd3+:Sr5(PO4)3F at 1.059 and 1.328 µm

X. X. Zhang, M. Bass, B. H. T. Chai, P. J. Johnson, J. C. Oles, and L. K. Cheng

NL11 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

A Quadrupled Nd:FAP laser at 1.126 µm for a Hg+ Optical Frequency Standard

F. C. Cruz and J. C. Bergquist

NL12 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Diode-Laser-Pumped 945 nm Laser in Nd3+ Doped Sr5(PO4)3F

X. X. Zhang, P. Hong, and B. H. T. Chai

NL13 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

OP - Optical Parametric Generators

A Single Mode Grazing Incidence BBO OPO with a Large Scanning Range

J. M. Boon-Engering, W. E. van der Veer, E. A. J. M. Bente, and W. Hogervorst

OP1 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Visible Picosecond Pulse Generation in a Frequency Doubled Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on LiB3O5

S. French, M. Ebrahimzadeh, and A. Miller

OP2 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Temperature (-32°C to +90°C) Performance of a 20 Hz Potassium Titanyl Phosphate Optical Parametric Oscillator

Robert D. Stultz and Michael E. Ehritz

OP3 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

A KTA Optical Parametric Oscillator Pumped by a Q-Switched, Injection-seeded Nd:YAG Laser

Ti Chuang, Jeffrey Kasinski, and Horacio R. Verdún

OP4 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Efficient tunable intra-cavity OPO in the mid-IR

A. Englander, R. Lavi, and R. Lallouz

OP5 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Continuous-wave mode-locked operation of a picosecond AgGaSe2 optical parametric oscillator in the mid infrared

Ch. Grässer, S. Marzenell, J. Dörring, R. Beigang, and R. Wallenstein

OP6 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

INFRA-RED TO VISIBLE NON LINEAR UP AND DOWN CONVERSION PROCESSES USING AgGaS2 CRYSTALS

D. Touahri, J. -J. Zondy, and O. Acef

OP7 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

8 micron ZGP OPO pumped at 2 microns

P. Ketteridge, P. Budni, I. Lee, P. Schunemann, and T. Pollak

OP8 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Efficient 2 - 5 µm KTP, KTA and ZnGeP2 OPOs

Larry R. Marshall, Jennifer Earl, Alex Johnson, Thomas Pollak, and Pete Schunemann

OP9 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Tandem OPO Source Generating 1.5-10-µm Wavelengths

Y. Isyanova, G. A. Rines, D. Welford, and P. F. Moulton

OP10 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Improved OPO brightness with a GRM non-confocal unstable resonator

Suresh Chandra, Toomas H. Allik, J. Andrew Hutchinson, and Mark S. Bowers

OP11 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Effect of Cavity Design on Optical Parametric Oscillator Performance

William A. Neuman and Stephan P. Velsko

OP12 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

SEMI-ANALYTICAL MODEL OF THE PULSED OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR; COMPARISON WITH EXPERIMENT

T. Debuisschert, J. Raffy, and J. P. Pocholle

OP13 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Infrared femtosecond pulse generation with a 250 kHz Ti:sapphire pumped ß-BaB2O4 optical parametric amplifier

Murray K. Reed and Michael K. Steiner-Shepard

OP14 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Synchronous pumping of an optical parametric oscillator using an amplified quasi-cw pump envelope

S. D. Butterworth, W. A. Clarkson, N. Moore, G. J. Friel, and D. C. Hanna

OP15 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

P - Preface

Preface

Clifford R. Pollock and Stephen A. Payne

P1 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

PL - Short Pulse Lasers

Generation of 40 fs, 20 TW pulses at 10 Hz

A. Antonnetti, J. P. Chambaret, G. Cheriaux, P. Curley, G. Darpentigny, C. Le Blanc, and F. Salin

PL1 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

An efficient diode-based Ti:sapphire ultrafast laser

Murray K. Reed, Michael K. Steiner-Shepard, and Daniel K. Negus

PL2 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

High-repetition-rate mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser using a saturable Bragg reflector

Taro Itatani, Takeyoshi Sugaya, Tadashi Nakagwa, Yoshinobu Sugiyama, Zhenlin Liu, Chengyou Liu, Shinji Izumida, Nobuhiko Sarukura, Tomoyuki Hikita, and Yusaburo Segawa

PL3 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Ultra-broad-band continuum generation by a self-trapped ultra-short Ti:Al2O3 laser pulse

Hajime Nishioka, Wataru Odajima, Yoshimasa Sasaki, and Ken-ichi Ueda

PL4 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Picosecond diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF laser seeded Ti:Sapphire laser amplifiers

Franck Falcoz, Frederic Estable, Luc Vigroux, Patrick Georges, and Alain Brun

PL5 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

All-Solid-State Diode-Pumped Tunable Femtosecond Cr:LiSAF Oscillator/Regenerative Amplifier

R. Mellish, R. Jones, N. P. Barry, S. C. W. Hyde, P. M. W. French, J. R. Taylor, C. J. van der Poel, and A. Valster

PL6 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Self-Starting Diode-Pumped Femtosecond Cr:LiSAF Laser

Franck Falcoz, François Balembois, Patrick Georges, Gérard Roger, and Alain Brun

PL7 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

47 fs pulse generation from a prismless self-mode-locked Cr:LiSGaF laser

I. T. Sorokina, E. Sorokin, E. Wintner, A. Cassanho, H. P. Jenssen, and R. Szipocs

PL8 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Self-starting femtosecond diode pumped Cr:LiSGAF laser

V. P. Yanovsky and F. W. Wise

PL9 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Saturable Bragg Reflector Modelocking of a Cr4+:YAG Laser Pumped By a Diode-Pumped Nd:YVO4 Laser

B. C. Collings, J. B. Stark, S. Tsuda, W. H. Knox, J. E. Cunningham, W. Y. Jan, R. Pathak, and K. Bergman

PL10 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Diode-pumped high-average power femtosecond fiber laser systems

M. E. Fermann, A. Galvanauskas, D. Harter, J. D. Minelly, J. E. Caplen, Z. J. Chen, and D. N. PAyne

PL11 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Broadband Tuning of a Femtosecond Neodymium Fiber Laser

M. H. Ober, M. Hofer, G. A. Reider, G. D. Sucha, M. E. Fermann, D. Harter, C. A. C. Mendonca, and T. H. Chiu

PL12 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Diode-pumped passively mode-locked 1.3 µm Nd:YVO4 and Nd:YLF lasers using semiconductor saturable absorbers

R. Fluck, G. Zhang, U. Keller, Kurt J. Weingarten, and M. Moser

PL13 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

New Visible C. W. Laser Transitions in Pr3+:YLF and Femtosecond Pulse Generation

J. M. Sutherland, P. M. W. French, J. R. Taylor, and B. H. T. Chai

PL14 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Effects of linear and nonlinear dispersion on ultrashort pulse generation in solid-state solitary-wave lasers

Marco Santagiustina and Ewan M. Wright

PL15 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

PM - Physics of Materials

Continuous-Wave Pr, Yb:LiYF4 Upconversion Laser in the Red Spectral Range at Room Temperature

T. Sandrock, E. Heumann, G. Huber, and B. H. T. Chai

PM1 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Raman Spectroscopic and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Barium Nitrate Crystal

Petr G. Zverev, Tasoltan T. Basiev, Weiling Jia, and Huimin Liu

PM2 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Pulse Instabilities and Chaos in Intracavity Solid State Raman Lasers

James T. Murray, P. T. Guerreiro, L. K. Calmes, Richard C. Powell, N. Peyghambarian, and W. Austin

PM3 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Far-Infrared p-Ge Laser: Pulse Dynamics and Repetition-Rate Enhancement

R. E. Peale, Kijun Park, H. Weidner, and J. J. Kim

PM4 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Application of Laser and Related Materials to Demonstrate Large Nonlinear Optical Effects and Diffraction Efficiency

Ian McMichael, Tallis Y. Chang, Mikhail A. Noginov, M. Curley, P. Venkateswarlu, and Harry Tuller

PM5 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Multiphonon relaxation in the rare-earth ions doped laser crystals

T. T. Basiev, Yu. V. Orlovskii, K. K. Pukhov, V. B. Sigachev, M. E. Doroshenko, and I. N. Vorob'ev

PM6 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

High Excited Ion Density Effects on the Effective Fluorescence Lifetime in Q-Switched Solid State Lasers

Brian W. Baird, Richard K. DeFreez, and Eric M. Freden

PM7 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Stimulated emission without cavity in powders and single crystals of Nd doped materials

M. A. Noginov, N. E. Noginova, H. J. Caulfield, P. Venkateswarlu, T. Thompson, M. Mahdi, and V. Ostroutnov

PM8 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Ultrafast Dynamics of Excited-State Absorption in V3+:YAG

V. P. Mikhailov, K. V. Yumashev, N. V. Kuleshov, A. M. Malyarevich, V. G. Shcherbitsky, P. V. Prokoshin, and N. N. Posnov

PM9 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Photoconductivity and Electro-Motive Force Study of Rare Earth Doped YSGG Laser Crystals

M. A. Noginov, N. Kukhtarev, N. E. Noginova, H. J. Caulfield, P. Venkateswarlu, and M. Mahdi

PM10 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

PT - Plenary Talks

The Challenge of Solid-State Lasers for Inertial Confinement Fusion

Howard T. Powell

PT1 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Lasers for Material Processing in Advanced Manufacturing Applications

Andrew C. Tam

PT2 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

QL - Passively Q-Switched Lasers

Passively Q-switched 180 ps Nd:LSB microchip laser

B. Braun, F. X. Kärtner, U. Keller, J. -P. Meyn, and G. Huber

QL1 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

CW-Diode Pumped Nd:GdVO4-Laser Passively Q-switched with Cr4+:YAG as Saturable Absorber

I. V. Klimov, V. B. Tsvetkov, I. A. Schherbakov, J. Bartschke, K. -J. Boller, and R. Wallenstein

QL2 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Efficient, Single-mode, 1.5-mJ, PassivelyQ-Switched Diode Pumped Nd:YAG Laser

Robert S. Afzal, John J. Zayhowski, and T. Y. Fan

QL3 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Q-switch and excited state absorption experiments with Cr4+:LuAG single crystals

R. Moncorgé, H. Manaa, F. Deghoul, Y. Guyot, Y. Kalisky, S. A. Pollack, E. V. Zharikov, and M. Kokta

QL4 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Diode-Pumped, Passively Q-Switched, 10 Hz Eyesafe Er:Yb:Glass Laser

Robert D. Stultz, David S. Sumida, and Hans Bruesselbach

QL5 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Passive Q-Switching of an Erbium Fiber Laser Using Uranium-Doped Fluoride Crystal Q-Switches

Robert D. Stultz, Hans Brusselbach, David S. Sumida, Marly B. Camargo, and Milton Birnbaum

QL6 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Passive Q-switching of the Erbium:Glass Laser Using Er3+:CaF2

Marly B. Camargo, Robert D. Stultz, and Milton Birnbaum

QL7 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

QM - Quasi-Phase Matching

High-power, high-repetition-rate optical parametric oscillator based on periodically-poled LiNbO3

Walter R. Bosenberg, Alexander Drobshoff, and Lawrence E. Myers

QM1 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

CW Singly-resonant Optical Parametric Oscillators Based on 1.064-µm-pumped Periodically Poled LiNbO3

Lawrence E. Myers, Walter R. Bosenberg, Jason I. Alexander, Mark A. Arbore, Martin M. Fejer, and Robert L. Byer

QM2 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Highly-efficient second harmonic generation of green light from picosecond pulses in bulk quasi-phase-matched lithium niobate

V. Pruneri, S. D. Butterworth, P. G. Kazansky, W. A. Clarkson, N. Moore, and D. C. Hanna

QM3 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Highly-efficient cw blue light generation via first-order quasi-phase-matched frequency doubling of a diode-pumped 946 Nd:YAG laser

V. Pruneri, R. Koch, P. G. Kazansky, W. A. Clarkson, P. St. J. Russell, and D. C. Hanna

QM4 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Synchronous Pumping of a Periodically Poled LiNbO3 Optical Parametric Oscillator

T. P. Grayson, L. E. Myers, M. D. Nelson, and Vince Dominic

QM5 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

1.047 µm synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillator in bulk periodically poled LiNbO3

V. Pruneri, S. D. Butterworth, and D. C. Hanna

QM6 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Quasi phase matching achieved in LiTaO3 thin films grown on sapphire by rf magnetron sputtering

Florence Armani-Leplingard, John J. Kingston, and David K. Fork

QM7 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

SM - Spectroscopy of Materials

Synthesis and study of non-linear laser crystals CeSc3(BO3)4

V. A. Lebedev, V. F. Pisarenko, Y. M. Chuev, V. V. Zhorin, A. A. Perfilin, and A. V. Shestakov

SM1 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Modification of Optical Transmission of flux-grown KTiOPO4 Crystal by Growth in Nitrogen Ambient

Akio Miyamoto, Yusuke Mori, Takatomo Sasaki, and Sadao Nakai

SM2 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Gain Measurements in Dy3+-doped LaCl3: A potential 1.3µm optical amplifier for telecommunications

K. I. Schaffers, R. H. Page, R. J. Beach, S. A. Payne, and W. F. Krupke

SM3 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

CrO3-4 and MnO2-4: Broadband Emitters in the NIR and Potential Laser Systems

Thomas C. Brunold, Menno F. Hazenkamp, and Hans U. Güdel

SM4 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Spectroscopy and Optical Amplification in Cr doped LiNbO3

J. M. Almeida, A. P. Leite, R. M. De La Rue, C. N. Ironside, J. Armin, M. Hempstead, and J. S. Wilkinson

SM5 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Investigation of Luminescent Properties of Sc:CaF2 and Sc,Ce:CAF2 Crystals as Promising New Media for UV Tunable Solid State Lasers

A. Yu. Dergachev, S. B. Mirov, W. A. Sibley, L. Esterowitz, V. B. Sigachev, and A. G. Papashvili

SM6 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Yb3+,Er3+-Codoped Silica-Based Glasses for Planar Optical Waveguide Amplifiers

Markus P. Hehlen, Timothy R. Gosnell, Nigel J. Cockroft, Allan J. Bruce, William H. Grodkeiwicz, Gerry Nykolak, Joseph Shmulovich, Ruby Ghosh, and Miriam R.X. Barros

SM7 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Excited-state dynamics in the low-phonon materials Er3+:BaY2F8 and Cs3Er2Br9

M. Pollnau, W. Lüthy, H. P. Weber, K. Krämer, H. U. Güdel, and R. A. McFarlane

SM8 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Crystal Growth and Luminescence properties of Er3+ doped YVO4 single crystals

F. S. Ermeneux, R. Moncorge, P. Kabro, J. A. Capobianco, M. Bettinelli, and E. Cavalli

SM9 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Growth and optical characterization of Nd:YVO4 LHPG crystals

F. S. Ermeneux, C. Goutaudier, R. Moncorgé, R. Burlot, and M. T. Cohen-Adad

SM10 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Tb3+ ion as a sensibilizer for rare-earth ions in a terbium trifluoride single crystal

M. A. Dubinskii, P. Misra, B. N. Kazakov, A. L. Stolov, and Zh. S. Yakovleva

SM11 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF Tm3+ IN LANTHANUM BERYLLATE

Vikas Sudesh, J. A. Piper, D. S. Knowles, and R. S. Seymour

SM12 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Spectroscopic Evaluation of the Visible Laser Potential of Several Pr3+ and Tm3+ Doped Crystals

Larry D. Merkle, Bahram Zandi, and Bruce H. T. Chai

SM13 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Compositionally Tuned Solid State Lasers

Norman P. Barnes, Keith E. Murray, Elka B. Ertur, Brian M. Walsh, and Ralph L. Hutcheson

SM14 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Self Quenching of the Nd 4F3/2 Manifold

Norman P. Barnes, Elizabeth D. Filer, and Clyde A. Morrison

SM15 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Effect of Radiation Trapping on Measured Excited-State Lifetimes in Solids

Markus P. Hehlen

SM16 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Time-Resolved Fourier Spectroscopy of Energy Transfer in (Ho3+, Yb3+):KYF4

C. J. Schwindt, H. Weidner, J. Donahue, and R. E. Peale

SM17 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Lack of Correlation Between Tm, Ho Upconversion Measurements

Kenneth M. Dinndorf and Hans P. Jenssen

SM18 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

A powerful new technique for laser crystals: Time-resolved Fourier Spectroscopy

H. Weidner and R. E. Peale

SM19 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

A Multi-Dimensional Spectroscopic Facility for the Characterization of Laser Materials

Lee H. Spangler and Ralph Hutcheson

SM20 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

TL - Tunable Lasers

Ce:LiSrAlF6 Laser Performance with Antisolarant Pump Beam

A. J. Bayramian, C. D. Marshall, J. H. Wu, J. A. Speth, S. A. Payne, G. J. Quarles, and V. Castillo

TL1 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Ultraviolet picosecond pulses from an all-solid-state Ce:LiSAF master oscillator and Ce:LiCAF power amplifier system

Zhenlin Liu, Nobuhiko Sarukura, Shinji Izumida, Yusaboro Segawa, Mark A. Dubinskii, Vadim V. Semashko, Alexander K. Naumov, L. Korableva, and Ravil Yu. Abdulsabirpv

TL2 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Lasing performance of pyrromethene and perylene laser dyes in xerogel host

M. Faloss, M. Canva, P. Georges, A. Brun, F. Chaput, and J. P. Boilot

TL3 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Single frequency, coupled cavity chromium forsterite laser

Iain T. McKinnie, Andrew J. Tiffany, and Donald M. Warrington

TL4 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Small signal gain in chromium forsterite amplifiers

Iain T. McKinnie and Terence A. King

TL5 Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) 1996 View: PDF

Slope efficiency and gain measurement of highly Cr4+ -doped forsterite

Takashi Fujii, Masahiro Nagano, and Koshichi Nemoto