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May 2008
- Hermite-Gaussian modes
- infrared light
- modes (strongly improved)
April 2008
March 2008
- Fuchtbauer-Ladenburg equation (strongly improved)
- power over fiber
- mode-locked diode lasers
- mode-locked fiber lasers (more figures)
- multimode fibers
February 2008
- Brewster windows
- erbium-doped gain media
- optical resonators (significantly improved)
- Raman gain (significantly improved)
- rate equation modeling
- spectral interferometry
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
- fluorescent lamps
- light-emitting diodes
- Lyot filters (significant improved)
- nanofibers (significant improved)
- single-polarization fibers
- waveplates
October 2007
- fiber lasers versus bulk lasers (significantly improved)
- fiber-optic links (strongly expanded)
- fluoride fibers (significantly improved)
- injection seeding
- spectrograms
September 2007
- autocorrelators (strongly improved)
- microchip lasers (strongly expanded)
- paraxial approximation
- photons (improved)
August 2007
- beam pointing fluctuations (strongly expanded)
- dispersion management
- gain bandwidth (significantly improved)
- group velocity (significantly improved)
- high power lasers (significantly improved)
- interferometers (significantly improved)
- nonlinear pulse distortion
- parasitic lasing
- pump absorption
- slab lasers (significantly improved)
July 2007
May 2007
- argon ion lasers
- composite laser crystals (strongly improved)
- etalons (strongly improved)
- fiber-coupled diode lasers
- four-level and three-level gain media (significantly improved)
- gas lasers
- helium-neon lasers
- rod lasers (substantially expanded)
- wavelength tuning (strongly improved)
April 2007
- higher-order modes
- powermeters (significantly expanded)
- relative intensity noise (strongly expanded)
- RGB sources (strongly improved)
March 2007
- amplifiers (strongly improved)
- beam combining
- coherent beam combining
- divided-pulse amplification
- femtosecond lasers (strongly improved)
- laser modeling (strongly improved)
- laser pointers (significantly improved)
- photon counting
- polarization mode dispersion (strongly improved)
- spectral beam combining
- superluminescent diodes (strongly improved)
February 2007
- distributed Bragg reflector lasers
- erbium-doped fiber amplifiers
- fluorescence (strongly improved)
- mode coupling
- mode hopping
- mode radius
- narrow-linewidth lasers
- phase matching (strongly improved)
- photodarkening
- semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors (significantly improved)
- tunable lasers (significantly expanded)
- vertical external cavity surface-emitting lasers (strongly expanded)
- visible lasers (strongly expanded)
January 2007
- active mode locking (significantly improved)
- electro-optic modulators (significantly improved)
- fiber to the home (significantly improved)
- laser crystals
- laser diodes (significantly improved)
- M2 factor (significantly improved)
- nanosecond lasers
- passive mode locking (significantly improved)
- quasi-phase matching (expanded)
- spectral brightness
- V number
December 2006
November 2006
- gain clamping
- laser guide stars
- laser modeling (strongly improved)
- self-focusing (strongly improved)
- silica fibers
- ultraviolet lasers
October 2006
- alignment sensitivity
- cavity dumping (strongly expanded)
- collimated beams
- slab lasers
September 2006
- brightness converters
- resonator modes (significantly improved)
- gain guiding
- intracavity laser absorption spectroscopy
- laser applications
- laser light
- lasers (strongly improved)
- picosecond lasers (strongly expanded)
- tungstate lasers
August 2006
- dielectric coatings
- monolithic solid-state lasers
- nonlinear crystal materials (strongly expanded)
- optical sampling (strongly expanded)
- resonant frequency doubling
- rod lasers
July 2006
- fiber amplifiers (significantly expanded)
- free space optical communications
- laser development
- quantum noise (significantly expanded)
- rare-earth-doped fibers
- single-atom lasers
June 2006
- B integral
- beam profilers
- high power fiber lasers and amplifiers
- lower state lifetime
- mode-locked fiber lasers
- self-terminating laser transitions
May 2006
- resonator modes (strongly expanded)
- dielectric mirrors (expanded)
- doping concentration
- gain narrowing
- laser safety (expanded)
- mode cleaners
- optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification
- Q factor (improved)
April 2006
- fiber fabrication
- Q switches
- saturation energy (strongly expanded)
- saturation power (strongly expanded)
- thin disk lasers (strongly expanded)
March 2006
- double pulses
- effective mode area
- frequency combs (strongly expanded)
- Gaussian pulses
- Gordon-Haus jitter
- parabolic pulses
- Q-switched lasers (strongly expanded)
- Q-switching (strongly expanded)
- spatial walk-off
- ultrafast lasers (strongly expanded)
February 2006
- active mode locking
- Fuchtbauer-Ladenburg equation
- Haus Master equation
- intracavity frequency doubling
- McCumber theory
- mode locking (not new, but strongly expanded)
- optical parametric oscillators (strongly expanded)
- passive mode locking
- polarization of laser emission
- power scaling of lasers
- pulse propagation modeling
- reciprocity method
- single-frequency lasers (strongly improved)
- single-mode operation
- temporal walk-off
- twisted-mode technique
January 2006
- all-solid-state lasers
- core-less end caps
- effective refractive index
- master oscillator fiber amplifier
- output coupling efficiency
- parametric amplification
- sech2-shaped pulses
- seed lasers
- silicon photonics
- synchronous pumping
- threshold pump power
- wall-plug efficiency
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