Diode lasers are by far the most efficient lasers currently available. With the ever‐continuing
improvement in diode laser technology, this type of laser has become increasingly attractive …

We describe a Ti: sapphire laser pumped directly with a pair of 1.2 W 445nm laser diodes.
With over 30mW average power at 800 nm and a measured pulsewidth of 15fs, Kerr-lens …

Improvements in the output power of a directly GaN diode-laser-pumped Ti: Al_2O_3 laser
are achieved by using double-sided pumping. In continuous wave operation, an output …

We report on a direct diode-pumped Ti: sapphire ultrafast regenerative amplifier laser
system producing multi-μJ energies with a repetition rate from 50 to 250 kHz. By combining …

Ti: sapphire presents unequaled tuning properties. However, because of a short lifetime, the
energy cannot be stored in Ti^ 3+ upper level, which makes this gain medium difficult to …

We demonstrate a direct diode-pumped Kerr Lens Modelocked Ti: sapphire laser producing
13 fs pulses with 1.85 nJ energy at 78 MHz (145 mW) using a single laser diode pump. We …

We report a directly blue diode pumped Ti: Sapphire oscillator that generates 5 nJ pulses.
This is five times higher pulse energy than previously reported for a directly diode pumped …

We describe a low-cost and efficient alexandrite (Cr: BeAl_2O_4) laser that is pumped by a
high-brightness tapered diode laser (TDL). The tapered diode (TD) provides up to 1.1 W of …

A 1030 nm distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) tapered diode laser with nearly diffraction-
limited emission is presented. The laser provides an optical output power of 12.7 W with an …

Diode lasers have proven to be versatile light sources for a wide range of applications.
Nonlinear frequency conversion of high brightness diode lasers has recently resulted in …