Laser pumping is the act of energy transfer from an external source into the gain medium of a laser. The energy is absorbed in the medium, producing excited...

replenished by a steady pump source. In some lasing media, this is impossible. In some other lasers, it would require pumping the laser at a very high continuous...

A nuclear pumped laser is laser pumped with the energy of fission fragments. The lasing medium is enclosed in a tube lined with uranium-235 and subjected...

reach high power, but which uses solar radiation for pumping the lasing medium. This type of laser is unique from other types in that it does not require...

A diode-pumped solid-state laser (DPSSL) is a solid-state laser made by pumping a solid gain medium, for example, a ruby or a neodymium-doped YAG crystal...

used as pump sources for vibronically broadened solid-state lasers such as Cr4+:YAG or via the second harmonic for pumping Ti:sapphire lasers. For many...

is defined by the polarization of the pump laser along with the quantum selection rules. Upon optical pumping, the atom is said to be oriented in a specific...

solid-state lasers have a fluorescence lifetime ranging from hundreds of microseconds to a few milliseconds.) Under standard laser-pumping conditions,...

continuous output from a ruby laser. Unlike the usual side-pumping method, the light from a mercury arc lamp was pumped into the end of a very small rod...

of this state requires an external energy source and is known as laser pumping. Pumping may be achieved with electrical currents (e.g. semiconductors, or...

krypton laser is an ion laser using ions of the noble gas krypton as its gain medium. The laser pumping is done by an electrical discharge. Krypton lasers are...

by laser diodes. Nitrogen lasers and excimer laser are used in pulsed dye laser pumping. Ion lasers, mostly argon, are used in CW dye laser pumping. Gas...

pumping. Optically pumped semiconductor lasers (OPSL) use a III-V semiconductor chip as the gain medium, and another laser (often another diode laser)...

This is a list of laser types, their operational wavelengths, and their applications. Thousands of kinds of laser are known, but most of them are used...

is the acoustic analogue of the laser.[citation needed] In a SASER device, a source (e.g., an electric field as a pump) produces sound waves (lattice vibrations...

reached at relatively low intensities of laser pumping. There are many hundreds of solid-state media in which laser action has been achieved, but relatively...

An excimer laser, sometimes more correctly called an exciplex laser, is a form of ultraviolet laser which is commonly used in the production of microelectronic...

Experimental and Theoretical Study of X-ray Lasers Pumped by an Ultra-Short Laser Pulse: Transient Pumping of Ni-like Ag Ions. Université de Paris, France...

neutron-burst pumped gamma-ray lasers". Laser Physics. 5 (2): 326–335. Gol'danskii, V. I.; Kagan, Yu.; Namiot, V. A. (1973). "Two-stage pumping of Mössbauer...

Titanium-sapphire lasers (also known as Ti:sapphire lasers, Ti:Al2O3 lasers or Ti:sapphs) are tunable lasers which emit red and near-infrared light in...

The carbon-dioxide laser (CO2 laser) was one of the earliest gas lasers to be developed. It was invented by Kumar Patel of Bell Labs in 1964 and is still...

A laser is constructed from three principal parts: An energy source (usually referred to as the pump or pump source), A gain medium or laser medium, and...

active transport Ion pump (physics), or sputter ion pump, type of vacuum pump which operates by sputtering a metal getter Laser pumping, the act of energy...

to 8000 nm. Although the high diffuse reflectance allows efficient laser pumping, the material has a fairly low damage threshold of 4 joules per square...

A laser pointer or laser pen is a (typically battery-powered) handheld device that uses a laser diode to emit a narrow low-power visible laser beam (i...

case of flash lamps, or another laser which is already pulsed. Pulsed pumping was historically used with dye lasers where the inverted population lifetime...

versions of this system manufactured by Northrop Grumman use diode-based laser pumping systems known by the name GUARDIAN. These systems are intended for potential...

A fiber laser (or fibre laser in Commonwealth English) is a laser in which the active gain medium is an optical fiber doped with rare-earth elements such...

greater than that of the laser transition. This means that, if the laser is optically pumped, the frequency of the pumping light must be greater than...

at 450 nm diode-pumped solid-state infrared lasers with frequency-doubling to 408nm upconversion of direct diode semiconductor lasers via thulium- or...