Solid-state lasers are typically limited by adverse thermal effects within the gain medium. In this Letter we describe a new method for dramatically reducing thermal effects in an end-pumped solid-state laser by incorporating a rotating intracavity periscope in the resonator to spatially separate the lasing and thermal processes. In contrast with previous examples of moving solid-state lasers, ...

Two multiline cw HF lasers employing unstable resonators were coupled by injecting 20% of each laser output into the other laser. The mutual coherence of the two output beams was measured by recording the visibility V of the interference fringes generated when the beams are overlapped. Both single-line and multiline interference patterns were observed. The output from the two lasers in the pres...

Zero incidence angle spatial filters of a compact design can be very useful, among others, for intracavity filtering in high-power micro-lasers. Typically, micro-lasers, especially operation regimes, emit beams low quality due to the large aspect ratio laser resonator. A promising proposal is integration Photonic Crystals structures into micro-resonator laser. Here, we report efficient with des...

We design and demonstrate a compact, narrow-linewidth integrated laser based on low-loss silicon nitride waveguides coupled to a III-V gain chip. By using a highly confined optical mode, we simultaneously achieve compact bends and ultra-low loss. We leverage the narrowband backreflection of a high-Q microring resonator to act as a cavity output mirror, a single-mode filter, and a propagation de...

A novel method for discriminating and selecting a specific high order mode is presented. It is based on introducing spiral phase elements into a laser resonator, so as to improve the output beam quality over that when the laser operates with multi-modes, and yet maintain a relatively high output power. The theoretical analysis, along with experimental results with CO and Nd:YAG lasers are prese...

We report on the atom optical manipulation of an atom laser beam. Reflection, focusing and its storage in a resonator are demonstrated. Precise and versatile mechanical control over an atom laser beam propagating in an inhomogeneous magnetic field is achieved by optically inducing spin-flips between atomic ground states with different magnetic moment. The magnetic force acting on the atoms can ...

A micro-scale resonator suspended over a substrate and illuminated with a continuous wave (CW) laser forms an interferometer which couples deflection of the resonator to light absorption. In turn, absorption creates temperature and thermal stress fields which feedback into the motion. Experiments have shown that this coupling can lead to limit cycle oscillations in which the resonator vibrates ...

Spectrally engineered semiconductor Fabry-Perot laser resonators are designed to enhance the optical feedback for selected longitudinal modes, which thereby require less gain for lasing. This is achieved by introducing refractive index perturbations along the length of the resonator. However, the physical realization of these resonators is a challenge because of very narrow tolerances; in parti...

large number of applications in physics, chemistry, bilogy, and engineering would greatly benefit from a laser eam that had a sharp focus but, simultaneously, a negliible spreading due to diffraction. Examples of such aplications include laser drilling and writing, trapping nd guiding of microparticles or nanoparticles and neural atoms, precise alignment and metrology echniques, and high-resolu...