Panelist: Kuzmin

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • High-average-power ultrafast laser amplifier with along-the-side end pumping
    • Eliminating the parasitic thermal effects in active elements, to avoid beam quality degradation, is a key point in high-power laser design. The authors of this publication in JOSA B showed that carefully following this...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 39(6) 1565-1570 (2022) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • Widely tunable, high-power, femtosecond noncollinear optical parametric oscillator in the visible spectral range
    • Tunable ultrafast laser sources have found applications in various photonics and biophotonics techniques from nonlinear and multiphoton spectroscopy to multimodal bioimaging. There is a full diversity of these devices...
    • Photon. Res. 9(9) 1715-1718 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • Ultrafast 3.5 µm fiber laser
    • Ultrafast mid-infrared (mid-IR) laser sources have drawn attention due to irreplaceable applications in molecular spectroscopy, mid-IR non-linear conversion processes and bio-diagnostics. Limited availability of gain...
    • Opt. Lett. 46(7) 1636-1639 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • All-fiber single-cavity dual-comb for coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy based on spectral focusing
    • Coherent anti‐Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy is one of the most effective tools for biomolecular imaging, which finds more and more biomedical applications. In the case of broadband CARS, where a...
    • Opt. Lett. 46(1) 146-149 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • High power continuous wave operation of single mode quantum cascade lasers up to 5 W spanning λ∼3.8-8.3 µm
    • Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are semiconductor lasers based on intersubband transitions between energy states created by quantum confinement in the conduction band of semiconductor multilayers. QCLs operating in the...
    • Opt. Express 28(10) 15181-15188 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • Nanosecond pulsed 620 nm source by frequency-doubling a phosphosilicate Raman fiber amplifier
    • Live fluorescence imaging/microscopy is one of the essential tools in the contemporary biomedicine arsenal. At the same time, the detrimental consequences of phototoxicity, which often occurs during live...
    • Opt. Lett. 44(24) 6025-6028 (2019) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • Low-cost Gaussian beam profiling with circular irises and apertures
    • Laser beam quality is a key parameter for reliable operation of most laser-based devices. In the laser community, the widely accepted way of measuring parameters of the TEM00 mode of a Gaussian beam is the...
    • Appl. Opt. 58(4) 1048-1056 (2019) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • Tuning parametric processes in semiconductor diode lasers
    • Microscale optical parametric oscillators (MOPO) based on laser diode technology may have important practical applications, especially in quantum optics. The self-pumped Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion (SPDC)...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 35(3) 552-557 (2018) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • Analytical model of tunable Alexandrite lasing under diode end-pumping with experimental comparison
    • The scope of laser technologies in dermatology has expanded dramatically in recent years. Dermatology laser procedures, including the removal of vascular and pigmented lesions, tattoos, scars, and undesired hairs, are...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 33(12) 2525-2534 (2016) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • Near perfect mode overlap between independently seeded, gain-switched lasers
    • Photon-based quantum cryptography, communication, and computation schemes have increased the need for light sources that produce indistinguishable coherent pulses at a high rate. Ideally a single-photon source, such as...
    • Opt. Express 24(16) 17849-17859 (2016) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey N. Kuzmin

    • High-finesse cavity external optical feedback DFB laser with hertz relative linewidth
    • Precise optical experiments, like the measurement of variations in the Earth’s gravity field, employ lasers with highly stabilized emission frequency, or, in other words, extremely narrow linewidth. To develop the...
    • Opt. Lett. 37(22) 4729-4731 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey N. Kuzmin

    • Design of ultrahigh brightness solar-pumped disk laser
    • As mentioned in the article of D. Liang and J. Almeida published in the Applied Optics, the idea of direct converting the broad-band non-coherent solar radiation into coherent and narrow-band laser radiation is almost...
    • Appl. Opt. 51(26) 6382-6388 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey N. Kuzmin

    • Unified theoretical model for calculating laser-induced wavefront distortion in optical materials
    • One of the great advantages of laser sources is the high quality of their output beams, which are close to diffraction-limited Gaussian beams. A high beam quality can be important in a wide range of applications, e.g....
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 29(7) 1772-1777 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • Continuous-wave interband cascade lasers operating above room temperature at λ = 4.7-5.6 μm
    • The development of new laser sources that operate in the mid- and longwave-infrared wavelength range between 3.5 and 25 µm, also known as the molecular fingerprint region, is a task of great importance due to wide...
    • Opt. Express 20(3) 3235-3240 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey N. Kuzmin

    • Spectroscopic investigation of Nd3+-doped ZBLAN glass for solar-pumped lasers
    • Solar-pumped lasers are a reality. They have a history only three years less than that of general lasers, first built in 1960. Solar-pumped lasers differs from others in that they do not require an artificial energy...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28(8) 2001-2006 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optical Design and Instrumentation

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • Low-cost Gaussian beam profiling with circular irises and apertures
    • Laser beam quality is a key parameter for reliable operation of most laser-based devices. In the laser community, the widely accepted way of measuring parameters of the TEM00 mode of a Gaussian beam is the...
    • Appl. Opt. 58(4) 1048-1056 (2019) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • Active frequency matching in stimulated Brillouin amplification for production of a 2.4 J, 200 ps laser pulse
    • Optical pulse compression by backward Brillouin scattering, produced by the coupling between light and sound, has been widely used for decades. This technique offers an attractive method for energy delivery from a pump...
    • Opt. Lett. 43(3) 511-514 (2018) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optics in Biology and Medicine

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • Label-free skin penetration analysis using time-resolved, phase-modulated stimulated Raman scattering microscopy
    • Raman quantitative measurements and drug tracking in skin tissue are quite challenging procedures, mostly due to strong background signals, which shadow millimolar concentrations of the investigated compounds. To...
    • Biomed. Opt. Express 12(10) 6545-6557 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • Multiplexed polarized hypodermic Raman needle probe for biostructural analysis of articular cartilage
    • The importance of Raman spectroscopy in biomedical research is well recognized. It is difficult to find an area of biomedical studies where this technique in not yet used. This role is mostly played due to the ability...
    • Opt. Lett. 45(10) 2890-2893 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • Spatiotemporally controlled nano-sized third harmonic generation agents
    • Third Harmonic Generation (THG), as a third-order nonlinear optical process, strongly depends on tuning the excitation power density—i.e., a modest increase of excitation laser power results in a substantial...
    • Biomed. Opt. Express 10(7) 3301-3316 (2019) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • Ultrafast 3.5 µm fiber laser
    • Ultrafast mid-infrared (mid-IR) laser sources have drawn attention due to irreplaceable applications in molecular spectroscopy, mid-IR non-linear conversion processes and bio-diagnostics. Limited availability of gain...
    • Opt. Lett. 46(7) 1636-1639 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • All-fiber single-cavity dual-comb for coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy based on spectral focusing
    • Coherent anti‐Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy is one of the most effective tools for biomolecular imaging, which finds more and more biomedical applications. In the case of broadband CARS, where a...
    • Opt. Lett. 46(1) 146-149 (2021) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • Innovative optofluidics and microscopy-based rapid analysis of pathogens
    • Bacterial sensing is an important technique for detecting pathogenic bacterial infections and preventing the outbreak of illness. Traditional approaches for bacterial infection analysis often includes time-consuming...
    • Biomed. Opt. Express 11(9) 5060-5069 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • Mid-infrared resonant cavity light emitting diodes operating at 4.5 µm
    • Infrared (IR) transmission spectroscopy is used for the identification of a number of combustible and atmospheric pollutant gases, as well as for human breath analysis. To extend the IR instrumentation potential,...
    • Opt. Express 28(16) 23338-23353 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • High power continuous wave operation of single mode quantum cascade lasers up to 5 W spanning λ∼3.8-8.3 µm
    • Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are semiconductor lasers based on intersubband transitions between energy states created by quantum confinement in the conduction band of semiconductor multilayers. QCLs operating in the...
    • Opt. Express 28(10) 15181-15188 (2020) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • Analytical model of tunable Alexandrite lasing under diode end-pumping with experimental comparison
    • The scope of laser technologies in dermatology has expanded dramatically in recent years. Dermatology laser procedures, including the removal of vascular and pigmented lesions, tattoos, scars, and undesired hairs, are...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 33(12) 2525-2534 (2016) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • Near perfect mode overlap between independently seeded, gain-switched lasers
    • Photon-based quantum cryptography, communication, and computation schemes have increased the need for light sources that produce indistinguishable coherent pulses at a high rate. Ideally a single-photon source, such as...
    • Opt. Express 24(16) 17849-17859 (2016) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey N. Kuzmin

    • Power scalable >25 W supercontinuum laser from 2 to 2.5 μm with near-diffraction-limited beam and low output variability
    • Supercontinuum (SC) white light lasers are becoming popular as light sources for various optical applications, e.g., in photonics and biophotonics. The high intensity of a laser beam in a nonlinear medium results in...
    • Opt. Lett. 38(13) 2292-2294 (2013) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey N. Kuzmin

    • High-finesse cavity external optical feedback DFB laser with hertz relative linewidth
    • Precise optical experiments, like the measurement of variations in the Earth’s gravity field, employ lasers with highly stabilized emission frequency, or, in other words, extremely narrow linewidth. To develop the...
    • Opt. Lett. 37(22) 4729-4731 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey N. Kuzmin

    • Design of ultrahigh brightness solar-pumped disk laser
    • As mentioned in the article of D. Liang and J. Almeida published in the Applied Optics, the idea of direct converting the broad-band non-coherent solar radiation into coherent and narrow-band laser radiation is almost...
    • Appl. Opt. 51(26) 6382-6388 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey Kuzmin

    • Continuous-wave interband cascade lasers operating above room temperature at λ = 4.7-5.6 μm
    • The development of new laser sources that operate in the mid- and longwave-infrared wavelength range between 3.5 and 25 µm, also known as the molecular fingerprint region, is a task of great importance due to wide...
    • Opt. Express 20(3) 3235-3240 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Andrey N. Kuzmin

    • Efficient laser emissions at 1.06 μm of swift heavy ion irradiated Nd:YCOB waveguides
    • A planar waveguide dielectric laser (PWL) consists of a thin layer of laser active medium with a higher refractive index than that of substrate in which it is embedded. The reduction of the cavity volume through optical...
    • Opt. Lett. 36(23) 4521-4523 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

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