This manuscript provides a comprehensive review of the characteristics of Cr4+-doped solid-
state lasers which produce broadly tunable coherent radiation in the near-infrared region of …

Reflecting changes in the field in the ten years since the publication of the first edition, The
Handbook of Photonics, Second Edition explores recent advances that have affected this …

A generalized model of a passively Q-switched laser is presented. It enables performance
optimization including cases in which the saturable absorber exhibits both ground and …

Metal nanoparticles (MNPs) are synthesized using various techniques on diverse substrates
that significantly impact their properties. However, among the substrate materials …

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 …

Tunable passive Q-switching (781 nm to 806 nm at 300 K) of a flash-lamp pumped Cr/sup
3+/: LiCaAlF/sub 6/(Cr: LiCAF) laser with a Cr/sup 4+/: Y/sub 2/SiO/sub 5/(Cr/sup 4+/: YSO) …

The intracavity photon density and the initial population-inversion density in the diode-
pumped passively Q-switched laser rate equations are assumed to be Gaussian spatial …

We report the operation of a diode-pumped monolithic self-Q-switched Cr, Nd: YAG laser in
which the codoped ions create saturable absorption for Nd^ 3+ laser emission at 1064 nm …

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+ …

We demonstrate, for the first time as far as we know, a passively Q-switched operation of a
Nd: YVO_4 laser in which a Cr^ 4+: YAG crystal and a laser-diode bar are used as the …