Femtosecond laser micromachining of diamond: Current research status, applications and challenges

B Ali, IV Litvinyuk, M Rybachuk - Carbon, 2021 - Elsevier
Ultra-fast femtosecond (fs) lasers provide a unique technological opportunity to precisely
and efficiently micromachine materials with minimal thermal damage owing to the reduced …

[HTML][HTML] Multiscale laser written photonic structures in bulk chalcogenide glasses for infrared light transport and extraction

C D'amico, G Martin, J Troles, G Cheng, R Stoian - Photonics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Direct ultrafast laser processing is nowadays considered the most flexible technique
allowing to generate complex 3D optical functions in bulk glasses. The fact that the built-in …

Diode-pumped 45 fs Yb: CALGO laser oscillator with 1.7 MW of peak power

S Manjooran, A Major - Optics Letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
A high-power sub-50 fs diode-pumped Yb: CALGO laser oscillator is demonstrated. The
peak power achieved for 45 fs pulses directly from the oscillator was 1.7 MW. To the best of …

Diode-pumped ultrafast Yb: KGW laser with 56 fs pulses and multi-100 kW peak power based on SESAM and Kerr-lens mode locking

R Akbari, KA Fedorova, EU Rafailov, A Major - Applied Physics B, 2017 - Springer
A high-power sub-60 fs mode-locked diode-pumped Yb: KGW laser based on hybrid action
of an InGaAs quantum-dot saturable absorber mirror and Kerr-lens mode locking was …

Kerr-lens mode locking of a diode-pumped Yb: KGW laser using an additional intracavity Kerr medium

R Akbari, A Major - Laser Physics Letters, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Kerr-lens mode-locked operation of a Yb: KGW laser pumped by a multimode laser diode
with the help of an additional Kerr medium is reported. With an enhanced Kerr lensing effect …

High peak power ultrafast Yb:CaF2 oscillator pumped by a single-mode fiber-coupled laser diode

M Kowalczyk, A Major, J Sotor - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a high peak power mode-locked Yb: CaF_2 oscillator pumped by a single-
mode laser diode. The laser operated in hybrid Kerr-lens and SESAM mode-locked regime …

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 …

Megawatt peak power level sub-100 fs Yb: KGW oscillators

H Zhao, A Major - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We report on the first demonstration, to the best of our knowledge, of sub-100 fs pulses
directly from the diode-pumped mode-locked Yb: KGW bulk oscillators operated at a low …

Polarization anisotropy of thermal lens in Yb:KY(WO4)2 laser crystal under high-power diode pumping

P Loiko, S Manjooran, K Yumashev, A Major - Applied optics, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Thermal lensing was studied in an N_g-cut monoclinic Yb: KY (WO_4) _2 (Yb: KYW) laser
crystal under high-power diode pumping at∼ 980 nm, for the two principal light …