Systematic evaluation and prediction of the pulse width of synchronously pumped lasers

Received: 17 March 1997/Revised version: 21 July 1997     

Fiber-lasers for ultrafast optics

Received: 7 March 1997/Revised version: 16 April 1997     

A laser system producing 5×1019 W/cm2 at 10 Hz

19 W/cm² have been achieved. Received: 10 March 1997/Revised version: 26 April 1997     

Calculation of the bulk electromagnetic properties of thunderclouds using a two-space scattering formalism

Received: 9 July 1997 / Revised version: 30 July 1998 / Published online: 24 February 1999     

Pulse duration limitations in a diode-pumped femtosecond Kerr-lens mode-locked Cr:LiSAF laser

Received: 20 February 1997/Revised version: 24 April 1997     

Continuous-wave, intracavity optical parametric oscillators: an analysis of power characteristics

Received: 29 December 1997/Revised version: 6 February 1998     

Theoretical and experimental investigation of a quenched cavity laser with saturable absorber

Received: 14 April 1997/Revised version: 11 August 1997     

High efficiency discharge-pumped XeCl laser

Received: 19 March 1997/Revised version: 7 August 1997     

Sensitive detection of methane with a 1.65 μm diode laser by photoacoustic and absorption spectroscopy

Received: 18 September 1997/Revised version: 11 November 1997     

Nonlinear mirror operation of a diode-pumped quasi-cw picosecond Nd:YAG laser

Received: 10 July 1997/Revised version: 23 September 1997     

Efficient all-solid-state tunable source based on a passively Q-switched high-power Nd:YAG laser

Received: 27 May 1997/Revised version: 20 June 1997     

Ultrashort-pulse fiber ring lasers

Received: 18 February 1997/Revised version: 22 April 1997     

Semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors supporting sub-10-fs pulses

Received: 18 March 1997/Revised version: 12 May 1997     

Picosecond UV pump/IR probe spectrometer for the 2–5 μm spectral region

-1 . Infrared absorbance changes are detected with an accuracy of 1 mOD and a time resolution of 1.8 ps. Received: 28 January 1997/Revised version: 7 April 1997     

A model for the optimization of double-clad fiber laser operation

Received: 27 October 1997/Revised version: 12 January 1998     

Compact resonator designs for mode-locked solid-state lasers

Received: 16 February 1997/Revised version: 24 April 1997     

Study of visual inspection and control methods of effectiveness of laser shock-processing

Received: 29 October 1996/Accepted: 16 May 1997     

Theoretical and experimental analysis of intensity noise in a codoped erbium–ytterbium glass laser

Received: 6 January 1997/Revised version: 10 April 1997     

1.24-μm cascaded Raman laser for 1.31-μm Raman fiber amplifiers

Received: 10 November 1997     

All-solid-state diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF femtosecond oscillator and regenerative amplifier

3+ :LiSrAlF₆ (Cr:LiSAF) regenerative amplifier, seeded by a diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF femtosecond oscillator. The amplifier produced pulses of less than 200 fs duration and greater than 1 μJ energy at repetition rates of up to 25 kHz. Received: 27 February 1997/Revised version: 16 April 1997