The field of optically pumped planar waveguide lasers has seen a rapid development over
the last two decades driven by the requirements of a range of applications. This sustained …

Significance: After three decades, more than 75,000 publications, tens of companies being
involved in its commercialization, and a global market perspective of about USD 1.5 billion …

We investigate power-scaling of green-diode-pumped Ti: Sapphire lasers in continuous-
wave (CW) and mode-locked operation. In a first configuration with a total pump power of up …

A directly diode-laser-pumped Ti: Al_2O_3 laser is demonstrated. Using a 1 W, 452 nm GaN
diode laser, 19 mW of cw output power is achieved in a potentially portable format. Pumping …

We describe a Ti: sapphire laser pumped directly with a pair of 1.2 W 445nm laser diodes.
With over 30mW average power at 800 nm and a measured pulsewidth of 15fs, Kerr-lens …

Ti: sapphire laser has an important position in ultrashort pulse generation and wavelength
tuning. The use of expensive frequency‐doubled diode‐pumped solid‐state laser as the …

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 …

Titanium doped sapphire (Ti: sapphire) is a laser gain material with broad gain bandwidth
benefiting from the material stability of sapphire. These favorable characteristics of Ti …

We demonstrate a Ti: sapphire laser pumped directly with a green diode laser. A single 1 W
InGaN diode laser operating at 518 nm is used as the pump source. Pulse durations as short …

Improvements in the output power of a directly GaN diode-laser-pumped Ti: Al_2O_3 laser
are achieved by using double-sided pumping. In continuous wave operation, an output …