ThEE2 1:45 PM: Beam alignment guide for laser experiments. Catherine R. DeMarco, Matthew E. Anderson, San Diego State Univ., USA. The Beam Alignment Guide for Laser Experiments (BAGLE) is an automated system that aligns visible and near-infrared optical beams. The responses of two quadrature detectors, located directly behind semi-transmissive mirrors, are analyzed electronically. A feedback lo...

This paper describes a proposal and successful demonstration of a dual wavelength all-fiber passively Q-switched erbium-doped fiber ring laser. The Q-switch operation was realized by using a nonlinear loop mirror that incorporated an unbalanced dispersion-decreasing taper fiber to act as a saturable absorber without additional elements. This setup enabled a fiber ring laser to achieve a perform...

Sensitive pressure sensor with nitride membrane and optoelectronic read-out system is described. Measured pressure is transformed into thick layer nitride membrane deflection. Nitride membrane serves as a mirror for laser beam and can move reflected laser mark. Mark’s position is sensed using position sensing device – fotolateral diode. Diode double current signal is amplified and conditioned d...

In this paper, we present an Yb-doped Y2O3 waveguide laser fabricated by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) that is Q-switched using a mono-layer graphene saturable absorber. 140 ns pulses at a repetition rate of 1.21 MHz and pulse energy of 14 nJ are achieved at an absorbed pump power of 528 mW. Introduction: Pulsed lasers have a range of applications in areas such as medicine, material processing,...

This Letter reports oscillation of a far-infrared (FIR) waveguide laser on individual Stark components of the 496-,Am transition in CH3 F by the application of an electric field across the laser medium. Stark shifting of vibrational-rotational absorption lines into coincidence with C02-laser pump lines giving rise to FIR oscillation in the rotational transitions was first observed in ammonia.' ...

Given previous reports of strong interactions between vision and somatic senses, we investigated whether vision of the body modulates pain perception. Participants looked into a mirror aligned with their body midline at either the reflection of their own left hand (creating the illusion that they were looking directly at their own right hand) or the reflection of a neutral object. We induced pa...

The axial position of a laser-trapped particle has been controlled by modification of the wave front by means of a membrane deformable mirror. The mirror gives wave-front modulation in terms of Zernike polynomials. By modulation of the Zernike defocus term we can modulate the particle position under conditions of laser trapping. A polystyrene particle of 1-microm diameter was moved along the op...

We present a simple technique to produce active Qswitching in various types of fiber amplifiers by active integration of an electrostatic actuated deformable metallic micro-mirror. The optical MEMS (MOEMS) device acts as one of the laser cavity reflectors and, at the same time, as switching/ modulator element. We aim to obtain laser systems emitting short, high-power pulses and having variable ...

Chaos synchronization using a continuous chaos control method was studied in two identical chaotic laser systems consisting of semiconductor lasers and optical feedback from an external mirror. Numerical calculations for rate equations indicate that the stability of chaos synchronization depends significantly on the external mirror position. We performed a linear stability analysis for the rate...

Suitable shaping (in particular, flattening and broadening) of the laser beam has recently been proposed as an effective device to reduce internal (mirror) thermal noise in advanced gravitational-wave interferometric detectors. Based on some recently published analytic approximations (valid in the infinite-testmass limit) for the Brownian and thermoelastic mirror noises in the presence of arbit...