We report on a double-pass Ho:YLF slab amplifier which delivered 350 ns long single-frequency pulses of up to 330 mJ at 2064 nm, with a maximum M2 of 1.5 at 50 Hz. It was end pumped with a diode-pumped Tm:YLF slab laser and seeded with up to 50 mJ of single-frequency pulses.

A Master Oscillator Power Amplifier configuration using a Nd:YAG single-crystal fiber to amplify a passively Q-switched microlaser is presented. We achieved the amplification of 80 μJ, sub-nanosecond pulses to the multi-millijoule regime. OCIS codes: (140.3580) Lasers, solid-state; (140.3480) Lasers, diode-pumped; (140.3530) Lasers, neodymium; (140.3380) Laser materials; (060.2290) Fiber materi...

Surnrnary-Single-diode parametric amplifiers or up-converters using multiple-resonator filters as coupling networks can be made to have considerably larger bandwidths than corresponding amplifiers having single-resonator coupling circuits. Data are presented from which the coupling-filter bandwidths required for given coupling network complexity, diode parameters, and required gain can be deter...

A 197.2THz (1520.2nm) ITU-T grid distributed feedback (DFB) diode laser is frequency stabilized at 197.198THz by 1ocking its second harmonic (SH) signal on the rubidium 5S1/27S1/2 two-photon transition at 394.396THz (760.1 nm). With 100mW from the DFB diode laser and amplifying by an erbium-doped fiber amplifier, we obtain an SH power of 15mW using a periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) wa...

We demonstrate a compact solid-state laser source for high-resolution two-photon spectroscopy of the 1S-2S transition in atomic hydrogen. The source emits up to 20 mW at 243 nm and consists of a 972 nm diode laser, a tapered amplifier, and two doubling stages. The diode laser is actively stabilized to a high-finesse cavity. We compare the new source to the stable 486 nm dye laser used in previo...

This paper proposes a signal processing methodology of communication system and realized that circuits using operational transconductance amplifier (OTA). Two important classes of communication circuit, delta modulator and compander have been designed using that procedure. In the first implementation coded pulse modulation system is demonstrated which employ sampling, quantizing and coding to c...

Generation of sub-150-fs-level pulses has been obtained from an Yb-doped crystal-based regenerative amplifier by applying an innovative amplification scheme. This scheme is based on optimization of the linear and non-linear phase during the amplification process inside the regenerative amplifier cavity. This technique with Yb:KYW allows to achieve pulse durations from diode-pumped Yb-doped rege...

A new approach for efficient second-harmonic generation using diode lasers is presented. The experimental setup is based on a tapered amplifier operated in a ring resonator that is coupled to a miniaturized enhancement ring resonator containing a periodically poled lithium niobate crystal. Frequency locking of the diode laser emission to the resonance frequency of the enhancement cavity is real...

The Nyquist approach to stability is used in a form suitable for representation on a chart having conventional Smith chart scales. It is shown how the gain and stability of negative conductance reflection amplifiers of the tunnel-diode type can be simultaneously predicted on this chart. The technique described is particularly useful in the practical design of these amplifiers embedded in networ...

A continuous single-frequency tunable blue laser at 447.3 nm is developed by external-cavity frequency doubling of a tapered amplifier-boosted continuous-wave diode laser at cesium (Cs) D1 line. A maximum blue power of 178 mW with 50.8% conversion efficiency is obtained. It can be continuously tuned over a range around 1.6 GHz as the diode laser frequency is scanned across the F=4→F'...