High transparency Pr:Y2O3 ceramics: A promising gain medium for red emission solid-state lasers

Solid State Lasers for Stereolithography

Stereolithography is a Rapid Prototyping & Manufacturing (RP&M) technique which is used to produce 3 dimensional plastic parts directly out computer files generated by CAD. Stereolithography systems use ultraviolet lasers to solidify liquid resin into the desired form as defined by the CAD file. In recent years, solid state laser technology has reached the point where it can be applied to stere...

Solid-State Lasers

High Gain Solid-State Amplifiers for Picosecond Pulses

Picosecond solid-state lasers are attractive for many industrial and scientific applications, such as precision material processing (Dausinger et al., 2003; Breitling et al., 2004), nonlinear optics (McCarthy & Hanna 1993; Ruffling et al., 2001; Sun et al., 2007) and laser spectroscopy (Mani et al., 2001). In contrast with traditional laser processing performed with 10-100 ns multi-kHz sources,...

Monolithic solid-state lasers for spaceflight

A new solution for building high power, solid state lasers for space flight is to fabricate the whole laser resonator in a single (monolithic) structure or alternatively to build a contiguous diffusion bonded or welded structure. Monolithic lasers provide numerous advantages for space flight solid-state lasers by minimizing misalignment concerns. The closed cavity is immune to contamination. Th...

Free-Electron Lasers as Pumps for High-Energy Solid-State Lasers

High average-power free-electron lasers may be useful for pumping high peak-power solid-state laser-amplifiers. At very high peak-powers, the pump source for solid-state lasers is non-trivial: flash lamps produce thermal problems and are unsuitable for materials with short florescence-times, while diodes can be expensive and are only available at select wavelengths. FELs can provide pulse train...