Fiber lasers have seen progressive developments in terms of spectral coverage and
linewidth, output power, pulse energy, and ultrashort pulse width since the first …

Whispering gallery mode (WGM) optical microresonators have attracted intense interests in
the past decades. The combination of high quality factors (Q) and small mode volumes of …

A three-color, solid-state, volumetric display based on two-step, two-frequency upconversion
in rare earth-doped heavy metal fluoride glass is described. The device uses infrared laser …

Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, Second Edition discusses the essential
principles, operating characteristics, and current technology of the main fiber laser and …

Ytterbium-doped silica fibers exhibit very broad absorption and emission bands, from/spl
sim/800 nm to/spl sim/1064 nm for absorption and/spl sim/970 nm to/spl sim/1200 nm for …

ZBLAN (ZrF4‐BaF2‐LaF3‐AlF3‐NaF), considered as the most stable heavy metal fluoride
glass and the excellent host for rare‐earth ions, has been extensively used for efficient and …

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Pump processes that produce upconversion laser emission in trivalent rare earth ion-doped
gain media are described, and the performance of upconversion lasers pumped by these …

Laser experiments with Pr^ 3+: LiYF_4 under excitation with a frequency doubled optically
pumped semiconductor laser emitting 5 W at 479 nm were performed at seven different laser …

Tunability has added an important dimension to a variety of laser devices and led to new
systems and applications. From laser spectroscopy to Bose-Einstein condensation, the one …