Focus issue introduction: advanced solid-state lasers

Benoît Boulanger, Gregory Goodno, Shibin Jiang, Sergey Mirov, Johan Nilsson, Alan Petersen, and Stefano Taccheo

Opt. Mater. Express 9(8), 3306-3309 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Tunable green lasing from circular grating distributed feedback based on CH₃NH₃PbBr₃ perovskite

Matthäus Jäckle, Heiko Linnenbank, Mario Hentschel, Michael Saliba, Sergei G. Tikhodeev, and Harald Giessen

Opt. Mater. Express 9(5), 2006-2021 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Laser spectroscopic characterization of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy (NV⁻) centers in diamond

Shova D. Subedi, Vladimir V. Fedorov, Jeremy Peppers, Dmitry V. Martyshkin, Sergey B. Mirov, Linbo Shao, and Marko Loncar

Opt. Mater. Express 9(5), 2076-2087 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Characterization of absorption bands in Ti:sapphire crystals

Peter F. Moulton, Jeffrey G. Cederberg, Kevin T. Stevens, Greg Foundos, Michal Koselja, and Jana Preclikova

Opt. Mater. Express 9(5), 2216-2251 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Energy transfer in iron-chromium co-doped ZnSe middle-infrared laser crystals

Vladimir Fedorov, Tristan Carlson, and Sergey Mirov

Opt. Mater. Express 9(5), 2340-2347 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Fabrication of anti-reflective microstructures on chalcogenide crystals by femtosecond laser ablation

Andrey A. Bushunov, Mikhail K. Tarabrin, Vladimir A. Lazarev, Valeriy E. Karasik, Yurii V. Korostelin, Mikhail P. Frolov, Yan K. Skasyrsky, and Vladimir I. Kozlovsky

Opt. Mater. Express 9(4), 1689-1697 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Characterization of absorption bands in Ti:sapphire crystals

Peter F. Moulton, Jeffrey G. Cederberg, Kevin T. Stevens, Greg Foundos, Michal Koselja, and Jana Preclikova

Opt. Mater. Express 9(5), 2216-2251 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

67-fs pulse generation from a mode-locked Tm,Ho:CLNGG laser at 2083 nm

Yongguang Zhao, Yicheng Wang, Weidong Chen, Zhongben Pan, Li Wang, Xiaojun Dai, Hualei Yuan, Yan Zhang, Huaqiang Cai, Ji Eun Bae, Sun Young Choi, Fabian Rotermund, Pavel Loiko, Josep Maria Serres, Xavier Mateos, Wei Zhou, Deyuan Shen, Uwe Griebner, and Valentin Petrov

Opt. Express 27(3), 1922-1928 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

High power monolithic tapered ytterbium-doped fiber laser oscillator

Baolai Yang, Hanwei Zhang, Chen Shi, Xiaolin Wang, Zhiyong Pan, Zefeng Wang, Pu Zhou, and Xiaojun Xu

Opt. Express 27(5), 7585-7592 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

55 W actively Q-switched single oscillator Tm³⁺, Ho³⁺-codoped silica polarization maintaining 2.09 µm fiber laser

Nicolas Dalloz, Thierry Robin, Benoit Cadier, Christelle Kieleck, Marc Eichhorn, and Anne Hildenbrand-Dhollande

Opt. Express 27(6), 8387-8394 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Reconversion of higher-order-mode (HOM) output from cladding-pumped hybrid Yb:HOM fiber amplifier

Kazi S. Abedin, Raja Ahmad, Anthony M. DeSantolo, and David J. DiGiovanni

Opt. Express 27(6), 8585-8595 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

8.8 GHz Q-switched mode-locked waveguide lasers modulated by PtSe₂ saturable absorber

Ziqi Li, Rang Li, Chi Pang, Ningning Dong, Jun Wang, Haohai Yu, and Feng Chen

Opt. Express 27(6), 8727-8737 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Study on thermal-lens induced mode coupling in step-index large mode area fiber lasers

Wenbo Liu, Jianqiu Cao, and Jinbao Chen

Opt. Express 27(6), 9164-9177 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

High-power, cascaded random Raman fiber laser with near complete conversion over wide wavelength and power tuning

V. Balaswamy, Siddharth Ramachandran, and V. R. Supradeepa

Opt. Express 27(7), 9725-9732 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

“Mixed” Tm:Ca(Gd,Lu)AlO₄ — a novel crystal for tunable and mode-locked 2 µm lasers

Zhongben Pan, Pavel Loiko, Josep Maria Serres, Esrom Kifle, Hualei Yuan, Xiaojun Dai, Huaqiang Cai, Yicheng Wang, Yongguang Zhao, Magdalena Aguiló, Francesc Díaz, Uwe Griebner, Valentin Petrov, and Xavier Mateos

Opt. Express 27(7), 9987-9995 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Vortex laser by transforming Gaussian mode with an interferometric output coupler

W. R. Kerridge-Johns, J. W. T. Geberbauer, and M. J. Damzen

Opt. Express 27(8), 11642-11650 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

High-efficiency continuous-wave single-mode room-temperature operation of Cr:CdSe single-crystal laser with output power of 2.3 W

Mikhail K. Tarabrin, Dmitry V. Ustinov, Sergey M. Tomilov, Vladimir A. Lazarev, Valeriy E. Karasik, Vladimir I. Kozlovsky, Yuriy V. Korostelin, Yan K. Skasyrsky, and Mikhail P. Frolov

Opt. Express 27(9), 12090-12099 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Highly adaptable gain-switched fiber laser with improved efficiency

Vid Agrež and Rok Petkovšek

Opt. Express 27(9), 12100-12109 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

2.92-µm high-efficiency continuous-wave laser operation of diode-pumped Er:YAP crystal at room temperature

Hiroki Kawase and Ryo Yasuhara

Opt. Express 27(9), 12213-12220 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

1.83-μm high-power and high-energy light source based on 885-nm in-band diode-pumped Nd:YAG bulk laser operating on ⁴F_3/2→⁴I_15/2 transition

Qingyu Tian, Bin Xu, Yunshan Zhang, Huiying Xu, Zhiping Cai, and Xiaodong Xu

Opt. Express 27(9), 12565-12571 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Suppression of stimulated Brillouin scattering in high power fibers using nonlinear phase demodulation

Gregory D. Goodno and Joshua E. Rothenberg

Opt. Express 27(9), 13129-13141 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

CEP-stabilized, sub-18 fs, 10 kHz and TW-class 1 kHz dual output Ti:Sa laser with wavelength tunability option

A. Golinelli, X. Chen, B. Bussière, E. Gontier, P.-M. Paul, O. Tcherbakoff, P. D’Oliveira, and J.-F. Hergott

Opt. Express 27(10), 13624-13636 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Q-switched and gain-switched Fe:ZnSe lasers tunable over 3.60–5.15 µm

Vladimir Fedorov, Dmitry Martyshkin, Krishna Karki, and Sergey Mirov

Opt. Express 27(10), 13934-13941 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Multi-octave visible to long-wave IR femtosecond continuum generated in Cr:ZnS-GaSe tandem

Sergey Vasilyev, Igor Moskalev, Viktor Smolski, Jeremy Peppers, Mike Mirov, Andrey Muraviev, Konstantin Vodopyanov, Sergey Mirov, and Valentin Gapontsev

Opt. Express 27(11), 16405-16412 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

100 Hz operation in 10 PW/sr·cm² class Nd:YAG Micro-MOPA

Taisuke Kawasaki, Vincent Yahia, and Takunori Taira

Opt. Express 27(14), 19555-19561 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Few-layer MXene Ti₃C₂T_x (T = F, O, or OH) saturable absorber for visible bulk laser

Qi Yang, Feng Zhang, Ningyi Zhang, and Han Zhang

Opt. Mater. Express 9(4), 1795-1802 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Band-edge field enhanced nonlinear cross-polarized wave generation in photonic band-gap structure

Surawut Wicharn and Prathan Buranasiri

Opt. Express 27(8), 11196-11204 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Temperature-dependent quasi phase-matching properties of periodically poled LaBGeO₅

Nobuhiro Umemura, Junji Hirohashi, Yasuhiro Nakahara, HIsaya Oda, and Yasunori Furukawa

Opt. Mater. Express 9(5), 2159-2164 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Visible-near-middle infrared spanning supercontinuum generation in a silicon nitride (Si₃N₄) waveguide

Dmitry Martyshkin, Vladimir Fedorov, Taylor Kesterson, Sergey Vasilyev, Hairun Guo, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Konstantin Vodopyanov, Tobias J. Kippenberg, and Sergey Mirov

Opt. Mater. Express 9(6), 2553-2559 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF | EPUB

Scalable approach for continuous-wave deep-ultraviolet laser at 213nm

Yushi Kaneda, Tsuyoshi Tago, Toshiaki Sasa, Masahiro Sasaura, Hiroaki Nakao, Junji Hirohashi, and Yasunori Furukawa

Opt. Express 27(6), 8021-8026 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Two-wavelength Tm:YLF/KGW external-cavity Raman laser at 2197 nm and 2263 nm

Uzziel Sheintop, Daniel Sebbag, Pavel Komm, Shaul Pearl, Gilad Marcus, and Salman Noach

Opt. Express 27(12), 17112-17121 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband switching of mid-infrared atmospheric windows by VO₂-based thermal emitter

Ruizhi Sun, Peiheng Zhou, Wansen Ai, Yanning Liu, Ya Li, Ruomei Jiang, Wenxin Li, Xiaolong Weng, Lei Bi, and Longjiang Deng

Opt. Express 27(8), 11537-11546 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Modal decomposition of Laguerre Gaussian beams with different radial orders using optical correlation technique

Srinivas Pachava, Awakash Dixit, and B. Srinivasan

Opt. Express 27(9), 13182-13193 (2019)  View: HTML | PDF