Mengjuan Zhang, Rongshan Liu, Ran An, Jiaqi Zhou, Xinyi Zhang, Baoshan Xia, Hui Zhang, Guili Zheng, Yanjun Zhang, Zhiguang Li
{"title":"Study on the fourth harmonic beam splitter at 266 nm for ND : YAG laser","authors":"Mengjuan Zhang, Rongshan Liu, Ran An, Jiaqi Zhou, Xinyi Zhang, Baoshan Xia, Hui Zhang, Guili Zheng, Yanjun Zhang, Zhiguang Li","doi":"10.1007/s10946-024-10230-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10946-024-10230-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We design a fourth harmonic beam splitter for ND : YAG laser fabricated by electron beam evaporation with HfO<sub>2</sub>/SiO<sub>2</sub>. At 45° incident angle, the transmittance of the as-deposited film is 99.49% at 1064 nm and 98.96% at 532 nm, while the reflectivity is 99.80% at 266 nm. The films are annealed in air at temperatures from 200 °C to 400 °C. We study the optical properties, microstructure, and surface morphology of as-deposited and annealed films. The transmission spectra of the films show blue shift with increasing annealing temperature. <i>X</i>-ray diffraction (XRD) results show that all the films exhibit polycrystalline with a monoclinic structure of HfO<sub>2</sub> and an amorphous structure of SiO<sub>2</sub>. The crystallite size and crystallinity of the film increase at annealing temperature of 400 °C, and there is no obvious change at annealing temperatures of 200 °C and 300 °C. According to the results of atomic force microscopy (AFM), the surface root-mean-square (RMS) roughness of the film significantly decreases at annealing temperatures of 400 °C.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":663,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Russian Laser Research","volume":"45 4","pages":"429 - 434"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143553697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zirun Liu, Kun Deng, Ming Ma, Jin Liu, Yan Liu, Lanling Lan, Jun Zhou, Yu Lu
{"title":"Solar side-pumped Nd : YAG single crystal fiber laser","authors":"Zirun Liu, Kun Deng, Ming Ma, Jin Liu, Yan Liu, Lanling Lan, Jun Zhou, Yu Lu","doi":"10.1007/s10946-024-10231-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10946-024-10231-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We propose a kind of side pumping configuration with a three-stage solar concentrator to improve the output power of solar-pumped single crystal fiber (SCF) laser. The primary concentrator system consists of 10 off-axis parabolic mirrors, and the secondary and third-stage concentrators are 10 two-dimensional composite parabolic concentrators (2D-CPCs) and the 2V-shaped reflectors, respectively. Sunlight is reflected multiple times in the 2V-shaped reflector and is absorbed by a Nd : YAG SCF (∅1 mm × 80 mm) for laser oscillation. Ray tracing demonstrates that the solar power absorbed by the SCF reaches 132.7 W. We solve the rate equation and transmission equation, the obtained results show that the laser output power, slope efficiency, and solar-laser conversation efficiency are 46.3 W, 38.9%, and 1.5%, respectively. The concentrator system can provide new ideas for solar-pumped SCF lasers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":663,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Russian Laser Research","volume":"45 4","pages":"435 - 443"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143553695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A GaAs 2D photonic crystal biosensor for waterborne detection","authors":"Abdelaziz Ould Bahammou, Monia Najjar","doi":"10.1007/s10946-024-10234-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10946-024-10234-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Monitoring waterborne and foodborne bacteria in drinking water and food is becoming a primary issue due to these bacteria having the potential to cause illness and harm human health. In this article, we design a new two-dimension (2D) photonic crystal biosensors for detecting waterborne bacteria, such as Vibrio cholerae, Escherichia coli (E. coli), Shigella flexneri and Salmonella. Our sensor is composed of air holes in a Gallium arsenide photonic crystal slab, using the plane wave expansion (PWE) and the finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods to develop and analysis the biosensor. The proposed biosensor has a high <i>Q</i>-factor of 9227.9, a sensitivity of 226.97, a high figure of merit (FOM) of 2269.7 RIU<sup>−1</sup>, a detection limit of 4.405 · 10<sup>-4</sup> RIU, a smallest size of 23.28 µm<sup>2</sup> for detection. The device can augment the capabilities of biological devices for waterborne and foodborne bacteria detection.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":663,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Russian Laser Research","volume":"45 4","pages":"468 - 477"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143553693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LD end-pumped thermal compensation Q-switched step concentration Tm : YAG laser","authors":"Jiawen Guo, Zhi Li, Qiujing Lin, Shiwei Xue, Chunting Wu, Yongji Yu","doi":"10.1007/s10946-024-10238-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10946-024-10238-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, for the first time, we propose an LD-end-pumped thermal compensation <i>Q</i>-switched step concentration Tm : YAG laser. A novel step concentration Tm : YAG crystal is used as the laser medium to mitigate the severe thermal effects typically encountered in single-doped Thulium crystals. To compensate the thermal lens effect generated by the crystal, we insert a negative lens into the cavity. At a repetition frequency of 100 Hz, an output energy of 7.82 mJ with a pulse width of 152.4 ns is achieved. The center wavelength is 2013.41 nm, and the beam quality is characterize by <span>(mathrm{M}_{x}^{2}=1.34)</span> and <span>(mathrm{M}_{y}^{2}=1.39)</span>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":663,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Russian Laser Research","volume":"45 4","pages":"500 - 509"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143553694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. A. Zazymkina, D. F. Aminev, V. S. Krivobok, Yu. V. Korostelin, V. I. Kozlovsky
{"title":"Low-temperature photoluminescence of CdTe:Fe single crystals for tunable lasers operating in mid-infrared spectral range","authors":"D. A. Zazymkina, D. F. Aminev, V. S. Krivobok, Yu. V. Korostelin, V. I. Kozlovsky","doi":"10.1007/s10946-024-10227-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10946-024-10227-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We study low-temperature photoluminescence of CdTe:Fe single crystals in the near-IR range at Helium temperatures. We establish that doping with 4 · 10<sup>18</sup> cm<sup>−3</sup> iron concentration leads to a decrease of the band gap by 8 ± 1 meV compared to non-doped CdTe. We show that, in the spectral range of 1.2–1.6 eV, the luminescence of crystals is mainly defined by Hydrogen-like donors and two types of acceptors with binding energies of 149 ± 5 meV and 45 ± 2 meV. In addition, we detect the luminescence bands with maxima of 1.1 eV and 0.95 eV in the longer wavelength region. The characteristic decay time for each of the bands is 0.386 ms at 7 K. The observed bands are ascribed to intracenter luminescence corresponding to the <sup>3</sup>T<sub>1</sub>(<sup>3</sup>H) → <sup>5</sup>E(<sup>5</sup>D) and <sup>5</sup>T<sub>2</sub>(<sup>5</sup>D) → <sup>5</sup>E(<sup>5</sup>D) transitions between Fe<sup>2+</sup>-ion inner shells. Detection and identification of these bands allows the use of the near-IR range for the study of optically active iron ions in promising laser media based on CdTe:Fe.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":663,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Russian Laser Research","volume":"45 4","pages":"404 - 410"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143553700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"3 µm Q-switched Er3+:ZBLAN laser with V4AlC3 saturable absorber","authors":"Ahmed Shakir Al-Hiti, F. Sh. Khalifa","doi":"10.1007/s10946-024-10223-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10946-024-10223-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We report a <i>Q</i>-switched Er<sup>3+</sup>:ZBLAN fiber laser based on Vanadium Aluminum carbide (V<sub>4</sub>AlC<sub>3</sub>) as a saturable absorber (SA). Our SA is fabricated by depositing V<sub>4</sub>AlC<sub>3</sub> nanoparticles on a gold mirror to form an SA film. The proposed laser operates at the 2784.32 nm central wavelength with a 1.68 nm 3 dB bandwidth. The maximum pulse energy and output power are 3.51 µJ and 490 mW at a maximum pump power of 6.6 W. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that V<sub>4</sub>AlC<sub>3</sub> provides <i>Q</i>-switching in the 3 µm region. The proposed SA is promising for mid-infrared pulsed lasers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":663,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Russian Laser Research","volume":"45 4","pages":"373 - 376"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143553703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Propagation behavior of partially coherent elliptical vortex beam in turbulent atmosphere along an uplink path and a downlink path","authors":"Yonggen Xu, Wenli Liu, Bocheng Li, Xueru Deng, Zairu Ma, Xiarong Hu","doi":"10.1007/s10946-024-10233-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10946-024-10233-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We derive analytical formulas for average intensity of a partially coherent elliptical vortex (PCEV) beam propagating in a turbulent atmosphere along an uplink path and a downlink path with the help of the extended Huygens–Fresnel principle. Our outcomes reveal that the normalized initial profile with the elliptical annular dark pattern splits and rotates counterclockwise around the major axis of elliptical hollow pattern with increasing the propagation distance in free space and atmospheric turbulence. We also find that the splitting light spots heal into a Gaussian-like spot due to the turbulence effect, smaller ellipticity, larger topological charge, slower healing process. It can be also found that PCEV beam propagates along a downlink path is less affected by atmospheric turbulence in comparison with uplink path. In order to confirm our numerical results, we combine the complex screen method and multi-phase screen method to simulate the propagation of the PCEV beam in atmospheric turbulence. It is indicated that the simulation results are in good agreement with theoretical results. Our findings may be of great significance for the development of the free-space optical communications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":663,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Russian Laser Research","volume":"45 4","pages":"454 - 467"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143554167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexey V. Kiselev, Anton A. Burtsev, Vladimir A. Mikhalevsky, Alexey A. Nevzorov, Nikolay N. Eliseev, Vitaly V. Ionin, Andrey A. Lotin
{"title":"Multi-bit subnanocesond optical switching of GST225 for photonic memory and computing","authors":"Alexey V. Kiselev, Anton A. Burtsev, Vladimir A. Mikhalevsky, Alexey A. Nevzorov, Nikolay N. Eliseev, Vitaly V. Ionin, Andrey A. Lotin","doi":"10.1007/s10946-024-10224-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10946-024-10224-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this work, we demonstrate stable multi-bit (discrete) modulations of the optical properties of thin-film GST<sub>225</sub> (Ge<sub>2</sub>Sb<sub>2</sub>Te<sub>5</sub> or GST) samples as a result of phase transitions induced by femtosecond (≈ 50 fs) laser pulses. An ultra-high crystallization rate of the SET material is shown, ~13 m/s. One- and many-step modulations of optical properties are obtained during crystallization of the sample material. Reamorphization or RESET of the samples occurs at a rate of 5–6 m/s; it is realized in several impacting pulses. This fact indicates the thermal nature of the phase transitions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":663,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Russian Laser Research","volume":"45 4","pages":"388 - 394"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143553699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La3Ga5SiO14 electro-optically cavity-dumped TM : YAP laser","authors":"Junhui Li, Baoquan Yao, Wenhao Cheng, Minglang Wu, Tongyv Dai, Xiaoming Duan","doi":"10.1007/s10946-024-10236-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10946-024-10236-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we report on a high-power Tm : YAP cavity-dumped laser capable of simultaneously achieving high repetition rates and short nanosecond pulses. The laser employs a Pockels cell (PC) composed of a La<sub>3</sub>Ga<sub>5</sub>SiO<sub>14</sub> (LGS) crystals as an electro-optical <i>Q</i>-switch, which overcomes the limitations of piezoelectric ringing effects on the highest operating repetition rates and thermally-induced depolarization on the maximum operating power. A stabilized pulsed laser output at 1942 nm, with a pulse repetition rate of 20 kHz, a pulse duration of 6.0 ns, and an average output power of 15.0 W, is obtained at a pump power of 150 W. The beam quality factor M<sup>2</sup> is 1.36 in the vertical direction and 1.18 in the horizontal direction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":663,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Russian Laser Research","volume":"45 4","pages":"483 - 489"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143554166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NianChi Hao, Yonggen Xu, Qian Xu, Wenli Liu, Bangzhuo An, Xueru Deng, Zairu Ma
{"title":"Propagation Properties of Partially Coherent Vortex Beams with Twist Phase in Oceanic Turbulence","authors":"NianChi Hao, Yonggen Xu, Qian Xu, Wenli Liu, Bangzhuo An, Xueru Deng, Zairu Ma","doi":"10.1007/s10946-024-10219-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10946-024-10219-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We derive the analytical expressions of the average intensity of a partially coherent twisted Laguerre– Gaussian vortex (PCTLGV) beam passing through oceanic turbulence with the help of the extended Huygens–Fresnel principle. The findings show that the normalized initial profile with a dark hollow distribution of PCTLGV beam gradually converts into a flat-topped one, and finally degenerates into a Gaussian-like distribution as the propagation distance increases. The outcomes also reveal that the effect of oceanic turbulence on the propagation properties of PCTLGV beam can be effectively mitigated by regulating the twist factor and topological charge. We also find that PCTLGV beam exhibits stronger anti-turbulence ability, when the topological charge and twist factor have opposite signs as well as larger absolute values of twist factor. In addition, the PCTLGV beam will degenerate fast in stronger turbulence over the poor turbulence, which can be counteracted by increasing the initial coherence lengths. Our researches can contribute to underwater communication transmission, oceanic laser radar detection, and optical imaging.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":663,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Russian Laser Research","volume":"45 3","pages":"332 - 342"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141933127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}