Mark Dubinskii

TL;DR: In this article, the first experimental demonstration of an end-pumped Cs laser using a Ti:sapphire laser for pump excitation is presented, and a discussion is given on power scaling diodepumped alkali lasers, indicating a potential efficiency advantage over power-scaled diode-pump solid-state lasers.

TL;DR: Diode-pumped Er3+:Y2O3 ceramic laser with ~14 W of true CW output at ~2.7 μm is reported, which is believed to be the highest power ever reported from Er3-doped bulk crystalline laser operating in a ~3-μm wavelength range.

TL;DR: This result presents, to the best of the knowledge, the highest power reported from resonantly-pumped Yb-free Er-doped LMA fiber laser, as well as the highest efficiency ever reported for any cladding-pumping Er- doped laser, either Yb -co-doping or Yb, free.

TL;DR: In this paper, a formalism for analyzing the power scaling of diffraction limited fiber lasers and amplifiers is applied to a wider range of materials, including silica doped with Tm and Er, YAG and YAG based ceramics and Yb doped phosphate glass.

TL;DR: Laser operation of a composite ceramic Er:YAG rod is demonstrated at 1645 nm with a slope efficiency of 56.9% under resonant pumping at 1532.3 nm and also the first reported use of a tape cast technique for producing laser ceramics.