Sapphire, garnet and vanadate crystals are the most prominent optical materials, and
vanadates play important roles in optics, especially in lasers and nonlinear optics …

This graduate-level textbook starts with Maxwell's equations. If the reader finds this
reasonable, this book should be helpful. Focusing on ultrafast solid-state laser oscillators …

We have demonstrated a diode-pumped passively mode-locked femtosecond Nd, Y: CaF_2
disordered crystal laser for the first time to our knowledge. By choosing appropriate Y …

Since 1990 we have observed a tremendous progress in ultrashort pulse generation using
solid-state lasers (Fig. 2.1. 1). Until the end of the 1980's, ultrashort pulse generation was …

We report an oblique incidence on semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM)
method in the LD pumped passively mode-locked Nd: YVO 4 picosecond laser in this article …

Regular and robust Q-switched and mode-locked (QML) pulses are produced in Nd: GdVO 4
laser by the integration of nonlinear mirror and semiconductor saturable absorber mirror …

In this paper we report the status of the experiment MIR (Motion Induced Radiation), aimed
at the experimental verification of the dynamical Casimir effect. The stringent theoretical …

A diode pumped passively mode locked Nd: CaYAlO4 (Nd: CYA) laser is demonstrated for
the first time to the authors' knowledge. Using a V-shaped cavity and a semiconductor …

A diode-pumped femtosecond mode-locked Nd, La: CaF_2 disordered crystal laser was
reported for the first time. By appropriately choosing the Nd and La-doping concentration …

In this paper, the status of the experiment MIR (motion induced radiation) is reported. This
experiment aims at measuring for the first time the dynamical Casimir effect by using an …