Bibliography: leaves 154-156. / 156 leaves : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / This thesis describes the construction of a low-power end pumped Nd:YAG laser and the subsequent theoretical and experimental investigation of the antiphase dynamics exhibited by the laser. The end pumped laser was modelled by extending the classical model of Tang Statz deMars to non-uniform pump along the active medium. The anomalous threshold behaviour of the laser, where modes with lower gain can supass modes with higher gain as the pump power increases, was accounted for. The antiphase dynamics were explored by modulating the pump power and measuring the transfer functions from this input to various outputs. The laser's response to various sources of noise was also studied. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of Chemistry and Physics, Discipline of Physics and Mathematical Physics, 2003?

歯科基礎医学会, 高橋茂 = Shigeru Takahashi, YAGレーザー照射によるラット顎下腺の損傷と修復に関する形態学的研究 = Morphological studies on the regeneration of rat submandibular gland following YAG laser irradiation, 歯科基礎医学会雑誌, APR 1993, 35(2), pp.115-146 / Hokkaido University (北海道大学) / 博士 / 歯学

En esta memoria se estudia la obtención de materiales policristalinos de alúmina y YAG (granate de itrio y aluminio) transparentes en el infrarrojo cercano y en el visible, empleando una ruta de procesamiento cerámico y evitando la introducción de segundas fases. La condición general que cualquier material no absorbente debe cumplir para evitar fenómenos de dispersión de luz y, por lo tanto, pérdidas de calidad óptica, es la homogeneidad espacial con respecto a sus propiedades dieléctricas. Por lo tanto, el tamaño de poro y, en el caso de materiales birrefringentes, el tamaño de grano, son los parámetros más importantes que es necesario controlar.En el caso de la alúmina, el empleo de métodos de sinterización convencionales produce un crecimiento de grano y una pérdida de transparencia. Para evitar este problema, se han seguido dos vías distintas: primero, se ha empleado un método de dopaje coloidal con alcóxidos de aluminio. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que este proceso modifica la superficie de los granos de alúmina mediante la nucleación y crecimiento de nanopartículas de [alfa]-alumina, consiguiendo un material final con una única fase. Se ha estudiado también cómo la modificación superficial de los granos de alúmina de la matriz cambia los mecanismos de difusión atómica durante la sinterización del material. Segundo, la sinterización de la alúmina pura y dopada mediante métodos no convencionales (SPS, Spark Plasma Sintering) ha permitido obtener muestras de alúmina transparentes, destacando que la alúmina dopada muestra mejores valores de transmitancia en línea. En el caso del YAG, se han empleado dos rutas de síntesis distingas: sol-gel y coprecipitación inversa, observándose que la segunda vía de síntesis, empleando cloruros como precursores, permite obtener un material de YAG puro a una temperatura de calcinación más baja y con un alto rendimiento. El material sintetizado se seca mediante un proceso de liofilización y se sinteriza mediante SPS obteniéndose un material de YAG con una elevada transmitancia. Finalmente, el YAG se ha dopado con un 1% atómico de Nd3+ empleando un método de procesamiento coloidal, proporcionando una funcionalización óptica adicional a dicho material: la emisión laser.

In the last years, intensive research on new tunable solid state laser materials has been carried out. For the spectral range from 1300 to 1600 nm the Cr4+ ion seems to be the most promising laser-ion. In order to meet the the demand of broad-band devices, we employed the Cr4+ doped YAG crystal fibers with high optical quality thin films design and coating (high index material TiO2, low index material SiO2) to achieve the development of high efficiency crystal fiber lasers. In this thesis, crystal fiber was used as the laser gain medium, and coated with optical thin films at both end faces (input face 900-1100 nm AR and 1300-1600 nm HR; output face 1300-1600 nm HR) as the laser cavity to reduce the loss and promote laser efficiency. During the experiment, we tried to optimize the coating conditions to acquire high density, stable index and low absorption coefficient thin films. With different thin film thickness and stacking designs, the electric field distribution was designed to be away from the laser interface and high index region to increase the laser-induced damage threshold and lifetime for high power pumping. In addition, CaO and Cr2O3 were deposited on Cr4+:YAG source rods before the laser-heated-pedestal growth to increase CaO and Cr2O3 doping concentration for higher fluorescence efficiency and signal saturation power.

Owing to the increasing demand on the telecommunication bandwidth and the advent of the OH--free dry fiber developed by Lucent Technology, a new transmission bandwidth for the fiber optical communication which is centered around 1400 nm has been created in recent years. However, the corresponding light sources, optical amplifiers and other devices needed in the new transmission window are still under development. This thesis is to dissert with respect to the Cr4+:YAG crystal fiber based ASE (amplified spontaneous emission) light sources which emit light with broadband wavelengths from around 1200 nm to 1600 nm. Our previous study showed that side-pumping configuration can achieve a maximum ASE power of 0.65 mW with a pump power of 11 W at 980 nm in wavelength, whereas the end-pumping configuration successfully generated an optimum ASE power of 2.45 mW with a pump power of 11 W using a 1064-nm Yb fiber laser. This thesis reviewed the Cr4+:YAG material and studied on the single and double-pumping configuration of ASE light source, numerical simulations of the L-I curve of both configurations, and of the emission and the gain spectrum of the material, plus the introductions of the experiments needed for the simulations will be reported.

Cr4+ doped Yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) has a strong spontaneous emission that can generate near-infrared emission from 1.2 to 1.6 £gm. This broadband emission have aroused great interest in developing tunable wavelength lasers and amplified spontaneous emitter (ASE).In this dissertation, The valence states of Cr ions in Ca or Ca/Mg co-doped Cr:YAG single-crystal fibers are studied. The fibers were grown using the laser-heated pedestal growth (LHPG) method, followed by annealing treatments up to 1500 oC. The concentrations of the Cr3+ and Cr4+ ions in octahedral and tetrahedral sites in oxygen or nitrogen environments were characterized for the first time to our knowledge. Above 700 oC, migration of Cr4+ between octahedral and tetrahedral sites takes place, the ratio is about 4%; its relative stabilization energy was estimated. For Ca,Cr:YAG annealed in an oxygen or nitrogen environment, it was 0.25 and 0.3 eV, respectively. For Mg,Ca,Cr:YAG annealed in oxygen or nitrogen, it was 0.47 and 0.49 eV, respectively. For the Ca,Cr:YAG crystal fiber (Ca/Cr=113.1%) with oxygen annealing, about 35% and 2.5% of Ca ions took part in charge compensation for Cr4+ in the octahedral and tetrahedral sites, respectively. The density of oxygen vacancies depends on the concentration of Ca ions. The estimated ratios of the unreacted oxygen vacancies to total oxygen vacancies were about 63% and 88% for oxygen and nitrogen annealing, respectively. The main limitation on the concentration of Cr4+ in the tetrahedral site of YAG is the presence of unreacted oxygen vacancies. Furthermore, chromium ions tend to diffuse outward during the LHPG of YAG crystal fiber, in which the average Cr4+ ion concentration decreases significantly after each diameter-reduction step. The Cr4+ ions are replenished using an electron gun to deposit Cr2O3 and divalent-ion oxide (CaO or MgO) on the source rod circumference before growth. It was observed that Ca2+ has better efficiency to diffuse into the source rod more efficiently than Mg2+generating fewer defects and stacking faults. By CaO deposition and post growth annealing at 1350 oC under an oxygen environment, a 110% increase in Cr4+ concentration was obtained. The achieved Cr4+ concentration and the ratio of Cr4+ to total Cr were 1.76 10^18 cm^-3 and 5.5, respectively.

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2004. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 121 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-107).

Zugl.: Aachen, Techn. Hochsch., Diss., 2006.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Physics and Mathematical Physics, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 151-163). Also available in an electronic version.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Physics and Mathematical Physics, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.