Visible lasers are sought for in a variety of applications. They are required in fields as
diverse as medicine, materials processing, display and entertainment technology and many …

Saturable-absorber Q switching of a neodymium-doped YAlO_3 laser at 1.34 µm and an
erbium-doped glass laser at 1.54 µm with a Co^ 2+: MgAl_2O_4 crystal was demonstrated …

We present a diode-pumped passively Q-switched Yb: YAG microchip laser, using a
semiconductor saturable absorber mirror. We obtained pulses with 1.1-μJ energy, 530-ps …

Thermal treatment of YAG crystals co-doped with Cr4+ and Ca2+ exhibits reversible
oxidation–reduction reactions of the chromium ions, which depend on both temperature and …

Published data on spectroscopic characteristics of saturable absorbers based on crystals
doped with tetrahedrally coordinated transition-metal ions (Cr 2+, Cr 4+, Cr 5+, V 3+, Cr 2+ …

Dirac-like topological insulators have attracted strong interest in optoelectronic application
because of their unusual and startling properties. Here we report for the first time that the …

Synthesis of vanadium-doped plasticized epoxy polymer composites and the study of their
spectral and nonlinear optical properties have been described. Basing on the obtained …

In this paper, we demonstrate the efficient 1.3 um dual-wavelength operation of LD end-
pumped Nd: YAG ceramic laser. With a plano-concave cavity, a maximum continuous-wave …

A diode-pumped Nd: YVO4 laser passively Q-switched and mode locked by V3+: YAG
generates as much as 505-mW average power at 1342 nm (30% of the cw output) in trains …

A survey of results on use of semiconductor-doped glass saturable absorbers for near-
infrared passively mode-locked and Q-switched solid-state lasers is presented. Nanosized …