Oxide phosphors for light upconversion; Yb3+ and Tm3+ co-doped Y2BaZnO5

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High power multimode fiber amplifier with wavefront reshaping for high beam quality recovery

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Spatial mode control of a diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser by use of an intracavity holographic phase plate

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High energy, single-mode, narrow-linewidth fiber laser source using stimulated Brillouin scattering beam cleanup

International audienceWe propose an original nonlinear beam cleaning fiber laser architecture to obtain high energy pulses with a good beam quality and a narrow linewidth. The output beam of a large core Er:Yb co-doped multimode fiber amplifier (M2 ~ 6, 220 μJ) is converted into a near diffraction limited beam (M2 = 1.6) through a stimulated Brillouin scattering injection seeded beam cleanup process. We report in this experiment a multimode to single mode conversion efficiency of 50% while preserving the master oscillator linewidt

Synthesis and Characterizations of YVO₄:Eu Colloids

International audienceWe present a new process for the synthesis of colloidal europium-doped yttrium vanadate with a particle diameter of about 10 nm. Nanocrystals are produced by precipitation of citrate complexes of rare-earth salts with sodium orthovanadate. NMR and IR studies show that the interaction between citrate ligands and lanthanide ions limits the growth of particles and ensures the stability of the colloidal solutions through electrostatic and steric repulsions. The optimized process leads to stable and highly concentrated transparent colloidal solutions in water (up to 400 g‚L-1)

High Energy, Single-Mode, Narrow-Linewidth Fiber Laser Source with Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Multimode to Single Mode Beam Converter

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Principles and optimisation of Rh :BaTiO3 phase conjugators and their application to MOPA lasers

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Principles and optimisation of Rh :BaTiO3 phase conjugators and their application to MOPA lasers

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