Laser Applications Conference

Myths, Legends, and Facts; From SDI to Tactical Battlefield Lasers - Reflections of a ‘Star Warrior’

Jim Horkovich

CW1C.1 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

A High-energy Attenuation System and the Application to X-ray Generation at Ultra-high Intensity

Baozhen Zhao, Wenchao Yan, Ping Zhang, Sudeep Banerjee, Grigory Golovin, Colton Fruhling, Daniel Haden, Jun Zhang, Cheng Liu, Shouyuan Chen, and Donald Umstadter

CW4C.1 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

High Performance Quantum Cascade Lasers from the Mid-IR to the Far-IR and their impact on Science and Technology

Federico Capasso

JM1A.1 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Remote Sensing of Trace Concentrations

Martin Scully

JM1A.2 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Application-enabling kiloWatt Average Power Petawatt Lasers

Constantin Haefner

JM2A.1 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

National Ignition Facility Science Applications

Christopher Marshall

JM2A.2 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Monolithic Mid-IR Supercontinuum Source

L. Brandon Shaw, Rajesh Thapa, Rafael R. Gattass, Vinh Nguyen, Geoff Chin, Dan Gibson, Woohong Kim, and J.S. Sanghera

JTh2A.1 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Wideband wavelength tunable narrow linewidth source by spectral compression with improved comb profiled fiber and ultrashort pulse fiber laser with single wall carbon nanotube

N. Nishizawa, Y. Andou, E. Omoda, H. Kataura, and Y. Sakakibara

JTh2A.10 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Comparative Study of Tm:LiLnF4 (Ln = Y, Gd, and Lu) Crystals for Microchip Lasers at ~2 μm

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

JTh2A.11 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Parametric Mid-IR Source Pumped by a High Power Picosecond Thin-Disk Laser

Ondřej Novák, Michal Vyvlečka, Martin Smrž, Taisuke Miura, Akira Endo, and Tomáš Mocek

JTh2A.13 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Exploring vortex structures of circularly geometric beams from off-axis pumped solid-state lasers with an external mode converter

J. C. Tung, P. H. Tuan, C. Y. Cho, H. C. Liang, K. W. Su, K. F. Huang, and Y. F. Chen

JTh2A.14 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Shaping and detecting mid-IR light with a Spatial Light Modulator

E. L. Maweza, L. Gailele, H. J. Strauss, I. Litvin, A. Forbes, and A. Dudley

JTh2A.15 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Examination of Iron Doped Gallium Nitride as a Near-IR Laser Material

Christopher G. Brown, Steven R. Bowman, Jacob H. Leach, and Kevin Udwary

JTh2A.16 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Efficient 355-nm Beam Generation through a Double Walk-off Compensation

Changsoo Jung, Kun-Kook Kim, Bong-Ahn Yu, Yeung Lak Lee, Woojin Shin, and Young-Chul Noh

JTh2A.17 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Design model of thermally insensitive convex-concave cavities for high-power diode-end-pumped solid-state lasers

P. H. Tuan, C. C. Chang, C. Y. Lee, C. Y. Cho, J. C. Tung, K. W. Su, K. F. Huang, and Y. F. Chen

JTh2A.18 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Terahertz parametric amplification using KTiOPO4

Ming-Hsiung Wu, Yu-Chung Chiu, Tsong-Dong Wang, Gang Zhao, Andrius Zukauskas, Fredrik Laurell, and Yen-Chieh Huang

JTh2A.19 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Development of Diode-Pumped Green Laser for Low-Jitter OPCPA Pumping

Yasuhiro Miyasaka, Hiromitsu Kiriyama, Maki Kishimoto, Michiaki Mori, Masaki Kando, and Kiminori Kondo

JTh2A.2 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Temporal Shaping of High Peak Power Pulse Trains from a Burst-Mode Laser System

Jürgen Reiter, Jörg Körner, Joachim Hein, and Malte C. Kaluza

JTh2A.20 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Fabrication of an all-solid tellurite disordered optical rod for transverse localization of light

Tong Hoang Tuan, Tonglei Cheng, Shunei Kuroyanagi, Shunta Tanaka, Kenshiro Nagasaka, Takenobu Suzuki, and Yasutake Ohishi

JTh2A.21 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Wavelength Conversion Performance in a Tellurite Step-Index Optical Fiber

Tong Hoang Tuan, Lei Zhang, Takenobu Suzuki, and Yasutake Ohishi

JTh2A.22 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

High-energy femtosecond all-fiber oscillator with increased cavity length and mode-field diameter

D. S. Kharenko, V. A. Gonta, and S. A Babin

JTh2A.23 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

High repetition rate, high pulse energy, Raman shifted wavelength selectable fiber laser source in the visible

L. Xu, S. Alam, Q. Kang, D.P. Shepherd, and D. J. Richardson

JTh2A.24 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Acousto-Optically Tuned CW Cr:ZnS Mid-IR Laser

Dmitry Martyshkin, Taylor M Kesterson, Vladimir Fedorov, and Sergey Mirov

JTh2A.25 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Resonantly pumped single-frequency Q-switched Ho:YAG ceramic laser

Yan Li, Quanxin Na, Yixuan Zhang, Mingwei Gao, Qing Wang, and Chunqing Gao

JTh2A.26 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Highly Efficient Dual-wavelength CW Mid-infrared Laser in Diode-pumped Er:SrF2 Crystals

Weiwei Ma, Xiaobo Qian, Liangbi Su, Jingjing Liu, Xiuwei Fan, Jie Liu, and Jun Xu

JTh2A.27 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

High Peak-Power Narrow Linewidth 1.9 μm Fiber Gas Raman Source

Bo Gu, Yubin Chen, Zefeng Wang, Fei Yu, and Chaofan Zhang

JTh2A.28 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

A stable ultra-broadband OPG/OPA source for the testing of 20 Petawatt Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifiers

Waseem Shaikh, Pedro Oliveira, Ian Musgrave, Marco Galimberti, Adam Wyatt, and Cristina Hernandez-Gomes

JTh2A.29 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Sub-100 fs pulse generation from a diode-pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:LuAG ceramic laser

Kai Liu, Jiangfeng Zhu, Jiang Li, Yang Yu, Huibo Wang, Ziye Gao, Junli Wang, and Zhiyi Wei

JTh2A.3 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Optimization of Low Quantum Defect Lasers

Steven R. Bowman

JTh2A.30 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Examination of Iron Doped Gallium Nitride as a Near-IR Laser Material

Christopher G. Brown, Steven R. Bowman, Jacob H. Leach, and Kevin Udwary

JTh2A.31 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Ultrafast Green Pulse Generation from Yb-doped Fiber Laser System

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

JTh2A.32 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Amplitude Noise Reduction in Yb-doped Fiber Amplifiers

Michael Müller, Cesar Jauregui, Marco Kienel, Florian Emaury, Clara J. Saraceno, Ursula Keller, Jens Limpert, and Andreas Tünnermann

JTh2A.33 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Mode selection in a double-pass Nd-doped fiber amplifier at 910 nm

Baptiste Leconte, Hervé Gilles, Thierry Robin, Benoit Cadier, and Mathieu Laroche

JTh2A.34 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Compact visible- through mid-IR laser system based on a DFB diode, fiber amplifiers, PPLN, and BIBO crystals

Nikolay S. Balakleiskiy, Andrey A. Machnev, and Igor V. Melnikov

JTh2A.35 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Self-frequency-doubled visible Yb:YCOB lasers at the wavelengths of 523 and 570 nm

Haohai Yu, Qiannan Fang, Huaijin Zhang, and Jiyang Wang

JTh2A.36 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

100-W few-cycle Yb-fiber laser source based on pre-chirp managed amplification employing circular polarization

Yizhou Liu, Wei Liu, Damian N. Schimpf, Tino Eidam, Jens Limpert, Andreas Tünnermann, Franz X. Kärtner, and Guoqing Chang

JTh2A.38 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Nonlinear pulse broadening in gas-filled large mode hollow-core photonic crystal fiber with kagome lattice

Zhenkai Fan, Zhiguo Lv, Peilong Yang, Shaobo Fang, Hao Teng, Shuguang Li, and Zhiyi Wei

JTh2A.4 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Second-order Raman Shift with Multiple Peaks in a Hundred-meter Tellurite Fiber

Tonglei Cheng, Weiqing Gao, Xiaojie Xue, Takenobu Suzuki, and Yasutake Ohishi

JTh2A.5 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

9% optically efficient, 750-nm LED-pumped Nd:YAG laser

Kuan-Yan Huang, Cheng-Kuo Su, Meng-Wei Lin, Yu-Chung Chiu, and Yen-Chieh Huang

JTh2A.6 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Orthogonally polarized dual-wavelength cryogenic Nd:YLF laser and the investigation to the passive Q-switching

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

JTh2A.7 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Er:YGG Planar Waveguide Amplifiers for LIDAR Applications

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

JTh2A.9 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Prospects of ytterbium-doped, monoclinic magnesium tungstate crystal for optical vortex laser

Wei-Dong Chen, Jie-Ling Lu, Li-Zhen Zhang, Zhou-Bin Lin, Ge Zhang, and Yung-Fu Chen

JTu2A.1 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Nd3+ Doped Phosphate Glass Waveguides for Pulsed Laser Applications

N. G. Boetti, D. Pugliese, E. Ceci-Ginistrelli, J. Lousteau, F. Poletti, and D. Milanese

JTu2A.10 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

30 W Thin Yb:YAG Rod Chirped Pulse Amplifier with High Output Beam Quality

Aleksej M. Rodin, Nerijus Rusteika, and Nerijus Slavinskis

JTu2A.11 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Modal content analysis of hollow core Kagome fibers

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

JTu2A.12 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

About 400 kW Peak-Power, 7.5 GHz Linewidth, 1.5 μm Fiber Gas Raman Source

Zefeng Wang, Yubin Chen, Bo Gu, Fei Yu, and Chaofan Zhang

JTu2A.13 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

High-repetition-rate, high-pulse-energy burst mode laser from a Nd:YVO4/Nd:YAG MOPA system

Renpeng Yan, Xudong Li, Xin Yu, Yufei Ma, and Zhongxiang Zhou

JTu2A.14 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

New scheme for pumping solid-state lasers based on LED-pumped luminescent concentrators

Adrien Barbet, Amandine Paul, Thomas Gallinelli, François Balembois, Jean-Philippe Blanchot, Sébastien Forget, Sébastien Chénais, Frédéric Druon, and Patrick Georges

JTu2A.15 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Mode Selection in High-Power Diode-Pumped Raman Fiber Laser by Means of Fs-Inscribed FBG

E. A. Zlobina, S. I. Kablukov, A. A. Wolf, A. V. Dostovalov, and S. A. Babin

JTu2A.16 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Tunable Bismuth-Doped Fiber Laser for a Spectral Region of 1360-1510 nm

V. M. Paramonov, M. I. Belovolov, M. A. Melkumov, S. V. Firstov, V. F. Khopin, A. N. Guryanov, and E. M. Dianov

JTu2A.17 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Ultra-broad band glass for short pulsed laser applications

Simi A. George, Sally Pucilowski, Joseph S. Hayden, and Eric H. Urruti

JTu2A.18 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Efficient Harmonic Conversion of 2-um Holmium Lasers into Near-IR, Visible and UV

M. Bethel, A. Dergachev, and D. Perlov

JTu2A.19 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

High Repetition Rate for Ultra-High Peak Power Laser Systems

Vladimir Chvykov, Huabao Cao, Roland S. Nagymihaly, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Nikita Khodakovskiy, Richard Glassock, Lutz Ehrentraut, Matthias Schnuerer, and Károly Osvay

JTu2A.2 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Spectral Beam Combining and Dispersion Compensation of Superfluorescent Fiber Source Array to 10.8 kW

Yifeng Yang, Ye Zheng, Bing He, Yunxia Jin, and Jun Zhou

JTu2A.20 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

5 MW peak power 10 ps fiber-solid hybrid laser from an aberration self-compensated double-pass two-stage Nd:YVO4 amplifier

Bin Liu and Chong Liu

JTu2A.21 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Q-Switching of a Holmium Microchip Laser

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

JTu2A.22 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Tm:(LuxGd1–x)3Ga5O12 Disordered Garnet for Continuous-Wave and Passively Q-switched Microchip Lasers

Pavel Loiko, Xavier Mateos, Stefano Veronesi, Zhitai Jia, Sun Young Choi, Fabian Rotermund, Wenxiang Mu, Yanru Yin, Mauro Tonelli, Xutang Tao, Konstantin Yumashev, Uwe Griebner, and Valentin Petrov

JTu2A.23 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Microresonator ECDL for super-cavity stabilization

Jinkang Lim, Shu-Wei Huang, Abhinav K. Vinod, Anatoliy A. Savchenkov, Andrey B. Matsko, Lute Maleki, and Chee Wei Wong

JTu2A.24 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Scalar and Vector Vortex Beams from the Source

Darryl Naidoo, Filippus S. Roux, Angela Dudley, Igor Litvin, Bruno Piccirillo, Lorenzo Marrucci, and Andrew Forbes

JTu2A.25 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Application of optical frequency comb based on laser-diode pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:KYW laser to optical frequency measurement and phase locking to optical reference frequency

Masatoshi Mitaki, Kazuhiko Sugiyama, and Masao Kitano

JTu2A.26 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

High average and high peak power MOPA laser based on Yb:YAG elements of different geometries

I.I. Kuznetsov, I.B. Mukhin, E.A. Perevezentsev, M.R. Volkov, O.L. Vadimova, and O.V. Palashov

JTu2A.27 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Correction parameter for the phase-matching properties of 5mol.% MgO doped congruent LiNbO3

Nobuhiro Umemura, Daisuke Matsuda, and Tomosumi Kamimura

JTu2A.28 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Efficient Chirped Bragg Gratings for Stretching and Compression of High Power Ultra Short Laser Pulses for Spectral Region 800 to 2500 nm

Vadim Smirnov, Ruslan Vasilyeu, Larissa Glebova, Oleg Smolski, Alexei Glebov, and Leonid Glebov

JTu2A.29 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Coupled Optical Parametric Oscillators Based on Oppositely-Oriented Nonlinear Crystal Twins

Yujie J. Ding

JTu2A.3 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Laser Performance of the New IR NLO Crystal BaGa4Se7

Jiyong Yao, Feng Yang, Baoquan Yao, Degang Xu, Li Wang, Yicheng Wu, and Zuyan Xu

JTu2A.30 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: 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

JTu2A.31 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Low-Dimensional Saturable Absorbers for Watt-Level Q-Switching of Er:Lu2O3 at 3 µm

Christian Kränkel, Mingqi Fan, Tao Li, Kejian Yang, and Dechun Li

JTu2A.32 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Lutetium Based Oxides as New Laser Crystal Hosts at Cryogenic Temperatures

David C. Brown, Cheryl Moore, Duminda Sanjeewa, and Joseph Kolis

JTu2A.33 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Pathways to a 4 μm Dy3+ Fluoride Glass Fiber Laser

R. S. Quimby and M. Saad

JTu2A.34 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Continuously pulse width tunable Nd:YAG ceramic micro giant-pulse laser for laser induced breakdown

Hwan Hong Lim and Takunori Taira

JTu2A.35 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Hybrid spatiotemporal coherent pulse addition of a picosecond flashlamp-pumped Nd:YAG laser

Ahmad Azim, Benjamin Webb, Nathan Bodnar, Michael Chini, Lawrence Shah, and Martin Richardson

JTu2A.36 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Sub-keV Electron Gun Driven by Ultrafast THz Pulses

W. Ronny Huang, Arya Fallahi, Xiaojun Wu, Huseyin Cankaya, Anne-Laure Calendron, Koustuban Ravi, Dongfang Zhang, Emilio A. Nanni, Kyung-Han Hong, and Franz X. Kärtner

JTu2A.37 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Stealth dicing with Bessel beams and beyond

R. Meyer, L. Rapp, J. Safioui, L. Furfaro, J.M. Dudley, and F. Courvoisier

JTu2A.38 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Coherent beam combining of 19 fibers in femtosecond regime

J. Le Dortz, M. Antier, J. Bourderionnet, C. Larat, A. Heilmann, I. Fsaifes, L. Daniault, S. Bellanger, C. Simon Boisson, J.-C. Chanteloup, E. Lallier, and A. Brignon

JTu2A.39 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Coherent Beam Combining for Ultrashort Intensity Laser Systems

Yanqi Gao, Yong Cui, Zexi Zhao, Zhongyang Xu, Ning An, Tao Wang, Daxing Rao, Lailin Ji, and Weixin Ma

JTu2A.4 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Diode-pumped Femtosecond Tm-doped Lu2O3 Ceramic Laser

Alexander A. Lagatsky and J.-M. Hopkins

JTu2A.5 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

New Design of 1 μm Large Mode Area Fiber With Sm3+ Doped Loss Coupled Core Structure

Zhiquan Lin, Chunlei Yu, Suya Feng, Dongbing He, Lei Wen, Qinling Zhou, Lei Zhang, and Lili Hu

JTu2A.6 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Self-Swept Holmium-Doped Fiber Laser near 2100 nm

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

JTu2A.7 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

94-fs Polarization-Maintaining Chirped-Pulse-Amplification System using a Fiber Stretcher

Robert Herda, Armin Zach, and Lars Grüner-Nielsen

JTu2A.8 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF

Multiple-beam Ceramic Nd:YAG Pulse-burst Laser

Yufei Ma, Xudong Li, Jiahui Huang, Ying He, Jiang Li, Renpeng Yan, Xin Yu, Rongwei Fan, Zhiwei Dong, Yubai Pan, and Rui Sun

JTu2A.9 Laser Applications Conference (LAC) 2016 View: PDF