Cr: Colquiriite Lasers: Current status and challenges for further progress

U Demirbas - Progress in quantum electronics, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Cr: Colquiriite laser materials (Cr: LiCAF, Cr: LiSAF, Cr: LiSGaF) own broad
absorption bands in the visible region that allow direct-diode pumping by well-developed …

Divalent (Cr2+), trivalent (Cr3+), and tetravalent (Cr4+) chromium ion-doped tunable solid-state lasers operating in the near and mid-infrared spectral regions

A Sennaroglu, Y Morova - Applied Physics B, 2022 - Springer
The chromium ion is among the most widely explored and used laser-active ions.
Depending on the charge state of the laser-active chromium ion in the host, tunable …

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 …

Dual-wavelength operation of a diode-pumped Nd:YVO4 laser at the 1064.1 & 1073.1 nm and 1064.1 & 1085.3 nm wavelength pairs

T Waritanant, A Major - Applied Physics B, 2018 - Springer
Two dual-wavelength operation regimes of a diode-pumped Nd: YVO 4 laser were
demonstrated at 1064.1 & 1073.1 and 1064.1 & 1085.3 nm with two intracavity birefringent …

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 …

Diode-pumped Alexandrite lasers in Q-switched and cavity-dumped Q-switched operation

GM Thomas, A Minassian, X Sheng, MJ Damzen - Optics Express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We present the first study of Q-switched Alexandrite lasers under continuous-wave diode-
pumping with operation up to 10 kHz repetition rates in TEM_00, with spatial quality M^ 2 …

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 …

A new near-infrared broadband laser crystal: Cr3+ doped YScO3

J Li, W Hou, Y Xue, Q Wang, Q Song, F Wang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, the Floating zone technique was used to grow high-quality Cr 3+: YScO 3
crystals. The absorption cross-sections of the 4 A 2→ 4 T 1 transition and 4 A 2→ 4 T 2 …