Sonoluminescing single bubbles driven simultaneously by two harmonic frequencies were recently reported to increase the maximum light output up to a factor of 3 with respect to single mode excitation. In this paper, experimental and numerical results on single-bubble sonoluminescence (SBSL) in an air/water system using the fundamental mode of 25 kHz and the second harmonic at 50 kHz are present...

Introduction: one of the minimally invasive methods of treatmenting liver malignancies is Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA) which can be applied to primary or secondary tumors. Nevertheless, the disease recurrence is probable after RFA application partially due to the inadequate capability of temperature monitoring of the target tissue and visualizing the thermal damage. The goal of this work was t...

We demonstrate the generation of high-brightness supercontinuum inside thuliumdoped fiber amplifier in 1950-2450nm spectral range with 1.7W output power and 32% slope efficiency, seeded by tunable 2000nm mode-locked laser and assisted by H4-H5/F4-H6 thulium transitions. OCIS codes: (320.6629) Supercontinuum generation; (160.5690) Rare-earth-doped materials; (060.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers

A compact side-pumped solar laser design using a Ce:Nd:YAG medium is here proposed to improve the TEM00-mode output performance, more specifically beam brightness. The performance of head was numerically studied by both ZEMAX® v13 and LASCADTM v1 software. Maximum multimode power 99.5 W computed for 4.1 mm diameter, 34 length grooved rod, corresponding collection efficiency 33.2 W/m2. To extrac...

We demonstrate the existence of an unusual and useful high-brightness guided mode of a multimode AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructure compound slab waveguide. This mode has a narrow near-field single lobe confined to the low-index regions of the waveguide. This mode was selectively probed by optically exciting quantum wells optimally placed in the waveguide. By pumping in a stripe geometry, lasing is ob...

Compact femtosecond laser operation of Yb:Gd(2)SiO(5) (Yb:GSO) crystal was demonstrated under high-brightness diode-end-pumping. A semiconductor saturable absorption mirror was used to start passive mode-locking. Stable mode-locking could be realized near the emission bands around 1031, 1048, and 1088 nm, respectively. The mode-locked Yb:GSO laser could be tuned from one stable mode-locking ban...