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Time-resolved cathodoluminescence spectroscopy of YAG and YAG:Ce3+ phosphors
2019
Abstract The phosphor powders, both undoped and Ce3+ doped with different concentration Y3Al5O12 (YAG), were synthesized by the solid-state reaction method with addition of BaF2 flux. SEM and XRD characterization of the samples were performed. The spectral and luminescence decay kinetic characteristics under the electron beam irradiation with nano- and picoseconds pulse duration and the electron energies of 250 keV and 55 keV were studied, respectively. Two bands in the cathodoluminescence spectrum of YAG:Ce3+ phosphors were observed with maxima at 2.19 ± 0.05 and 2.4 eV. The intensity ratio of these two bands depends on the electron energy and the duration of the excitation pulse. Instead,…
Laser heating and ablation at high repetition rate in thermal confinement regime
2006
International audience; Laser heating and ablation of materials with low absorption and thermal conductivity (paint and cement) were under experimental and theoretical investigations. The experiments were made with a high repetition rate Q-switched Nd:YAG laser (10 kHz, 90 ns pulse duration and l = 532 nm). High repetition rate laser heating resulted in pulse per pulse heat accumulation. A theoretical model of laser heating was developed and demonstrated a good agreement between the experimental temperatures measured with the infrared pyrometer and the calculated ones. With the fixed wavelength and laser pulse duration, the ablation threshold fluence of paint was found to depend on the repe…
Flashlamp-pumped Ti:Sapphire laser: Influence of the rod figure of merit and Ti3+ concentration
1994
A flashlamp-pumped Ti:Sapphire laser is tested with rods of various Figures of Merit (FOM from 100 to 800) and Ti3+ concentrations (0.1 and 0.15% by weight) and we measured the laser energy dependence as a function of these parameters. Output energies above 2 J are obtained without dye converter, leading to a 1.8% overall efficiency and a 2.2% slope efficiency. The effects of pump pulse duration by variation of the discharge capacitance are also monitored.
High power impulse magnetron sputtering of Zn/Al target in an Ar and Ar/O2 atmosphere: The study of sputtering process and AZO films
2019
Financial support provided by Scientific Research Project for Students and Young Researchers Nr. SJZ/2017/4 realised at the Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia is greatly acknowledged.
Octave-spanning coherent supercontinuum generation in a step-index tellurite fiber and towards few-cycle pulse compression at 2 μ m
2021
Abstract We experimentally demonstrate 140-THz bandwidth (at −20 dB) supercontinuum generation in a 10 cm-long all-normal dispersion step-index tellurite fiber pumped by a turn-key femtosecond fiber laser emitting at 2 . 11 μ m at a repetition rate of 19 MHz. The soliton self-frequency shifted thulium-doped fiber mode-locked laser emits initial transform-limited pulses, with 85-fs pulse duration, that are subsequently quasi-linearly chirped (over more than 50 THz) during the above nJ-level nonlinear propagation. Moreover, we numerically demonstrate the possible pulse compression down to 12 fs by means of additional linear propagation in a standard step-index fluoride fiber with anomalous di…
Double-pulse single-beam grazing-incidence pumping
2011
The paper reports on the optimization of a table-top nickel-like molybdenum transient collisionally excited soft x-ray laser (SXRL) at 18.9 nm, performed by double-pulse single beam grazing incidence pumping (DGRIP) [1]. This scheme allows for the first time the full control of the pump laser parameters including the pre-pulse duration, optimally generating the SXRL amplifier under grazing incidence. The single beam geometry of collinear double-pulse propagation guarantees the ideal overlap of the pre- and main pulse from shot to shot, resulting in a more efficient, highly stable SXRL output. SXRL energies up to 2.2 µJ are obtained with a total pump energy less than 1 J for several hours at…
Characterization of a 10Hz double-pulse non-normal incidence pumped transient collisional Ni-like molybdenum soft x-ray laser for applications
2009
Stable and reliable operation of a nickel-like molybdenum transient collisional soft x-ray laser at 18.9 nm demonstrated and studied with a 10Hz Ti:sapphire laser system proves the suitability of the double-pulse non-normal incidence pumping geometry for table-top high repetition soft x-ray lasers and broadens the attractiveness of x-ray lasers as sources of coherent radiation for various applications. X-ray laser emission with pulse energies well above 1 μJ is obtained for several hours at 10Hz repetition-rate without re-alignment under optimized double pumping pulse parameters including energy ratio, time delay, pulse duration and line focus width.
50 mJ/30 ns FTIR Q-switched diode-pumped Er:Yb:glass 1.54 μm laser
2001
Abstract 50 mJ Q-switched output at 30 ns pulse duration was demonstrated with a transversely diode-pumped bulk Er 3+ :Yb 3+ :glass 1.54 μm laser system of uncomplicated and compact design, using a piezoelectrically driven FTIR shutter. In long-pulse operation, 360 mJ output was obtained for 2.65 J incident optical pump energy. Maximum optical slope efficiencies of 20.5% and 5.4% were measured in long-pulse and Q-switched operation, respectively. Optimum Q-switch timing was studied taking into account the Yb 3+ →Er 3+ energy transfer process and was correlated with free-running delay parameters.
Structural, Optical, and Dielectric Investigations of the Relaxor PLZT 9,75/65/35 Ceramics Irradiated by High-Current Pulsed Electron Beam
2003
A comprehensive study of high-current pulsed electron irradiation effects on the structural, optical and dielectric properties of relaxor (Pb (1-x )La x )(Zr 0.65 Ti 0.35 ) 1-x/4 O 3 ceramics with x = 9,75 at.% has been performed for the first time. The electron beam had the following parameters: energy E = 250 keV, current density I = 1000 A/cm 2 , pulse duration τ = 300 ns, beam density -10 15 electrons/cm 2 per pulse. Infrared reflectivity spectra in the region of 100 ÷ 2000 cm -1 were obtained in virgin, irradiated by 1500 pulses and annealed up to 500°C ceramics. The reconstruction of perovskite ABO 3 structure in irradiated samples has been studied by combined use of X-ray diffraction…
Wide wavelength-tunable passive mode-locked Erbium-doped fiber laser with a SESAM
2021
Abstract In this work we present a simple polarization-maintaining wavelength-tunable passive mode-locked Erbium-doped fiber laser with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM) as a mode locker. The cavity includes a Sagnac interferometer-based fiber optical loop mirror (FOLM) as a wide wavelength-tunable filter. Tunable mode-locking was experimentally achieved in the range of 1543.2 nm to 1569.5 nm by thermally adjustment of FOLM wavelength reflection. The output pulses have a repetition rate of 11.16 MHz with pulse duration about 0.9 ps. The experimental results were confirmed by numerical simulations.