High power continuous-wave dual-wavelength alexandrite laser

S Ghanbari, A Major - Laser Physics Letters, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
A high power dual-wavelength alexandrite (Cr: BeAl 2 O 4) laser using a single plate
birefringent filter (BRF) was demonstrated. Using a 6 mm thick BRF, dual-wavelength output …

Femtosecond Kerr-lens mode-locked Alexandrite laser

S Ghanbari, R Akbari, A Major - Optics Express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
The generation of 170 fs pulses at 755 nm from a Kerr-lens mode-locked Alexandrite laser
was demonstrated. The laser was pumped at 532 nm and produced 780 mW of average …

Continuous-wave dual-wavelength operation of a diode-pumped Nd: GdVO4 laser at the 1063 & 1071 nm, 1063 & 1083 nm and 1083 &1086 nm wavelength pairs

M Nadimi, A Major - Laser Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We have demonstrated what we believe is the first report on the three continuous-wave dual-
wavelength operation regimes of a diode-pumped Nd: GdVO 4 laser using a single …

Femtosecond Alexandrite laser passively mode-locked by an InP/InGaP quantum-dot saturable absorber

S Ghanbari, KA Fedorova, AB Krysa, EU Rafailov… - Optics Letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
An Alexandrite laser passively mode-locked using an InP/InGaP quantum-dot
semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (QD-SESAM) was demonstrated. The laser was …

High power and beam quality continuous-wave Nd:GdVO4 laser in-band diode-pumped at 912  nm

M Nadimi, T Waritanant, A Major - Photonics Research, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We report on the performance of a continuous-wave Nd: GdVO_4 laser in-band diode-
pumped at 912 nm with high output power and excellent beam quality. The laser produced …

Efficient continuous-wave Nd: YLF laser in-band diode-pumped at 908 nm and its thermal lensing

Z Sedaghati, M Nadimi, A Major - Laser Physics Letters, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on what we believe is the first continuous-wave yttrium lithium fluoride laser with
in-band diode pumping at 908 nm. Pumping at this wavelength reduced the quantum defect …

High-performance cavity-dumped Q-switched Alexandrite laser CW diode-pumped in double-pass configuration

S Unland, R Kalms, P Wessels, D Kracht… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We present a high-performance Alexandrite laser for LIDAR applications with repetition
rates up to 20 kHz in cavity-dumped Q-switched operation continuous-wave diode-pumped …

Dispersive properties of alexandrite and beryllium hexaaluminate crystals

P Loiko, A Major - Optical Materials Express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
The Cr^ 3+-and Ti^ 3+-doped crystals of chrysoberyl (BeAl_2O_4) and beryllium
hexaaluminate (BeAl_6O_10) are very attractive for generation of near-IR ultrashort laser …

Diode-pumped Alexandrite laser with passive SESAM Q-switching and wavelength tunability

U Parali, X Sheng, A Minassian, G Tawy, J Sathian… - Optics …, 2018 - Elsevier
We report the first experimental demonstration of a wavelength tunable passively Q-
switched red-diode-end pumped Alexandrite laser using a semiconductor saturable …

Alexandrite spectroscopic and laser characteristic investigation within a 78–400 K temperature range

M Fibrich, J Šulc, D Vyhlídal, H Jelínková… - Laser Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on the influence of temperature on the spectroscopic and lasing properties of
alexandrite ($\newcommand {\alexandrit}{{\rm Cr^{3+}: BeAl_2O_4}}\alexandrit $) crystal …