Volume Bragg Gratings in PTR Glass--New Optical Elements for Laser Design

This is a survey of achievements in semiconductor, solid state and fiber lasers enabled by the use of new optical elements which are volume Bragg gratings recorded in a photo-thermo-refractive (PTR) glass.

[1]  Armen Sevian,et al.  Stable coherent coupling of laser diodes by a volume Bragg grating in photothermorefractive glass. , 2006, Optics letters.

[2]  Alain Rapaport,et al.  Spectral narrowing of solid state lasers by narrow-band PTR Bragg mirrors , 2006, SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing.

[3]  A Gourevitch,et al.  Efficient pumping of Rb vapor by high-power volume Bragg diode laser. , 2007, Optics letters.

[4]  D. Hoffmann,et al.  Wavelength stabilization of HPDL array: fast-axis collimation optic with integrated VHG , 2007, SPIE LASE.

[5]  Leonid B. Glebov.  High brightness laser design based on volume Bragg gratings , 2006, SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing.

[6]  E. D. Melnik,et al.  Wavelength stabilization and spectrum narrowing of high-power multimode laser diodes and arrays by use of volume Bragg gratings. , 2004, Optics letters.

[7]  Igor V. Ciapurin,et al.  Modeling of phase volume diffractive gratings, part 1: transmitting sinusoidal uniform gratings , 2006 .

[8]  Christophe Dorrer,et al.  Spectral filtering in a diode-pumped Nd:YLF regenerative amplifier using a volume Bragg grating. , 2007, Optics express.

[9]  Almantas Galvanauskas,et al.  Large-aperture chirped volume Bragg grating based fiber CPA system. , 2007, Optics express.

[10]  V Keith Kanz,et al.  Resonance transition 795-nm rubidium laser. , 2003, Optics letters.

[11]  Fredrik Laurell,et al.  Tunable single-longitudinal-mode ErYb:glass laser locked by a bulk glass Bragg grating. , 2006, Optics letters.

[12]  Vadim Smirnov,et al.  Solid-state laser spectral narrowing using a volumetric photothermal refractive Bragg grating cavity mirror. , 2006, Optics letters.

[13]  Vadim Smirnov,et al.  Angle Selective Enhancement of Beam Deflection in High-Speed Electrooptic Switches , 2007 .

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[16]  Fredrik Laurell,et al.  Single-longitudinal-mode Nd-laser with a Bragg-grating Fabry-Perot cavity. , 2006, Optics Express.

[17]  Vadim Smirnov,et al.  Volume Bragg semiconductor lasers with near diffraction limited divergence , 2006, SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing.

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[19]  Igor V. Ciapurin,et al.  Spectral combining of high-power fiber laser beams using Bragg grating in PTR glass , 2004, SPIE LASE.

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[21]  V. I. Smirnov,et al.  Optical parametric chirped-pulse-amplification contrast enhancement by regenerative pump spectral filtering , 2007, 2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science.

[22]  Vadim Smirnov,et al.  Spectral beam combining of fiber lasers with increased channel density , 2007, SPIE LASE.

[23]  Leonid B. Glebov,et al.  High-brightness narrow-line laser diode source with volume Bragg-grating feedback , 2005, SPIE LASE.