• A diode-pumped solid-state laser (DPSSL) is a solid-state laser made by pumping a solid gain medium, for example, a ruby or a neodymium-doped YAG crystal...
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    Solid state lasing media are typically optically pumped, using either a flashlamp or arc lamp, or by laser diodes. Diode-pumped solid-state lasers tend...
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    laser diode (LD, also injection laser diode or ILD or semiconductor laser or diode laser) is a semiconductor device similar to a light-emitting diode...
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    nitride at 450 nm diode-pumped solid-state infrared lasers with frequency-doubling to 408nm upconversion of direct diode semiconductor lasers via thulium-...
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    650 nm. Green laser pointers appeared on the market around 2000 and are the most common type of DPSS lasers (also called diode-pumped solid-state frequency-doubled...
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    A disk laser or active mirror (Fig.1) is a type of diode pumped solid-state laser characterized by a heat sink and laser output that are realized on opposite...
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    laser and the demonstration of its usefulness as a practical solid state laser source”. Nd:YAG lasers are optically pumped using a flashtube or laser...
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    "Comparison of diode-side-pumped triangular Nd:YAG and Nd:YAP laser" (PDF). In Hoffman, Hanna J; Shori, Ramesh K (eds.). Solid State Lasers XIV: Technology...
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    and operate in either the red (a laser diode) or green (a diode-pumped solid-state laser, DPSS) areas of the electromagnetic spectrum. Initially developed...
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    used, such as chemical or nuclear reactions. A laser pumped with an arc lamp or a flashlamp is usually pumped through the lateral wall of the lasing medium...
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    A dye laser is a laser that uses an organic dye as the lasing medium, usually as a liquid solution. Compared to gases and most solid state lasing media...
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    module LLM01 laser light module combines visible and infrared laser diodes. In the late 1990s, green diode pumped solid state laser (DPSS) laser sights (532 nm)...
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  • of states DPSS – diode-pumped solid-state (laser) DWDM – dense wavelength-division multiplexing ECDL – external-cavity diode laser EDC – electronic dispersion...
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    state), transition-metal solid-state lasers, semiconductor crystal and diode lasers, and free-electron lasers. Tunable lasers find applications in spectroscopy...
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  • large rise in achieved diffraction-limited beam powers from diode-pumped solid-state lasers. Due to the introduction of large mode area (LMA) fibers as...
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  • microscopy Diode-pumped solid-state laser Dipole trap Direct laser lithography Direct metal laser sintering Directed-energy weapon Disk laser Dispersive...
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    compete with traditional diode-pumped solid-state lasers. Vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) are semiconductor lasers whose emission direction...
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    caesium cadmium bromide (CsCdBr3) (solid-state lasers) Glasses, e.g. silicate or phosphate glasses, doped with laser-active ions; Gases, e.g. mixtures...
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    and operate in either the red (a laser diode) or green (a diode-pumped solid-state laser, DPSS) areas of the electromagnetic spectrum.[citation needed]...
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  • (SESAM) which demonstrated the first passively mode-locked diode-pumped solid-state laser in 1992. "For almost two decades since then, her group at ETH...
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  • Doped with neodymium it forms Nd:YVO4, an active laser medium used in diode-pumped solid-state lasers. Doped with europium it forms Eu:YVO4, the dominant...
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    Ti3+ ions. A Ti:sapphire laser is usually pumped with another laser with a wavelength of 514 to 532 nm, for which argon-ion lasers (514.5 nm) and frequency-doubled...
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  • pulses of extremely high power, using diode-pumped solid-state lasers. Unlike the NIF system, the Mercury laser aims to achieve a high repetition rate:...
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    Electronics Corporation was a developer and manufacturer of diode-pumped solid-state lasers, and was a significant contributor to the creation and maturation...
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    is a white solid. KTP is an important nonlinear optical material that is commonly used for frequency-doubling diode-pumped solid-state lasers such as Nd:YAG...
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    which convert light into electricity. Electroluminescence, from a solid state diode, was discovered, in 1906, by Henry Joseph Round, of Marconi Labs,...
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    the Ar2* excimer laser.[citation needed] Direct UV-emitting laser diodes are available at 375 nm. UV diode-pumped solid state lasers have been demonstrated...
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    "Progress towards a Compact Laser Driver for Laser Inertial Fusion Energy" (PDF). High Energy Class Diode Pumped Solid State Lasers Workshop. Bethe, Hans (May...
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    by laser diodes. Nitrogen lasers and excimer laser are used in pulsed dye laser pumping. Ion lasers, mostly argon, are used in CW dye laser pumping. Gas...
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  • Amplified spontaneous emission (category Laser science)
    Wittig; U. Brauch; H. Opower (1994). "Scalable concept for diode-pumped high-power solid-state lasers". Applied Physics B. 58 (5): 365–372. Bibcode:1994ApPhB...
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