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    A solid-state laser is a laser that uses a gain medium that is a solid, rather than a liquid as in dye lasers or a gas as in gas lasers. Semiconductor-based...
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  • 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...
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    semiconductor lasers. Either designation distinguishes diode lasers from solid-state lasers. Another method of powering some diode lasers is the use of...
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    A solid-state dye laser (SSDL) is a solid-state lasers in which the gain medium is a laser dye-doped organic matrix such as poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)...
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    and solid state. Among the types of tunable lasers are excimer lasers, gas lasers (such as CO2 and He-Ne lasers), dye lasers (liquid and solid state), transition...
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    caesium cadmium bromide (CsCdBr3) (solid-state lasers) Glasses, e.g. silicate or phosphate glasses, doped with laser-active ions; Gases, e.g. mixtures...
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    tube or another laser. The usage of the term "solid-state" in laser physics is narrower than in typical use. Semiconductor lasers (laser diodes) are typically...
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    A ruby laser is a solid-state laser that uses a synthetic ruby crystal as its gain medium. The first working laser was a ruby laser made by Theodore H...
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    crystal that is used as a lasing medium for solid-state lasers. The dopant, neodymium in the +3 oxidation state, Nd(III), typically replaces a small fraction...
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    diode-side-pumped triangular Nd:YAG and Nd:YAP laser" (PDF). In Hoffman, Hanna J; Shori, Ramesh K (eds.). Solid State Lasers XIV: Technology and Devices. Vol. 5707...
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    LaserDisc player models read discs by using a helium–neon laser. In 1984, Pioneer Corporation introduced the first consumer player with a solid-state...
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  • of lasers commonly used are solid-state lasers (especially ruby lasers and Nd:YAG lasers) and gas lasers. The first type uses one of several solid media...
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    450 nm diode-pumped solid-state infrared lasers with frequency-doubling to 408nm upconversion of direct diode semiconductor lasers via thulium- or praseodymium-doped...
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    not categorized as lasers. Injection seeder Mode locking Q-switching List of laser articles Koechner, Walter (1992). Solid-State Laser Engineering, 3rd...
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    flashlamps. Diode lasers pump solid state lasers and liquid dye lasers. A ring laser design is often used, especially in dye lasers. The ring laser uses three...
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  • Quantum dot laser – Semiconductor laser that uses quantum dots as the active laser medium Ruby laser – Solid-state laser Solid-state laser – Laser which uses...
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    polyamide), aiming the laser automatically at points in space defined by a 3D model, binding the material together to create a solid structure. It is similar...
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    A dye laser is a laser that uses an organic dye as the lasing medium, usually as a liquid solution. Compared to gases and most solid state lasing media...
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    dioxide laser. Solid-state lasers are designed by doping a rare element into various host materials. Unlike in gas lasers, solid state lasers are pumped optically...
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    the Ti:sapphire laser has amounted to more than $600 million, making it a big commercial success that has sustained the solid state laser industry for more...
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    650 nm. Green laser pointers appeared on the market around 2000 and are the most common type of DPSS lasers (also called diode-pumped solid-state frequency-doubled...
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    operate in either the red (a laser diode) or green (a diode-pumped solid-state laser, DPSS) areas of the electromagnetic spectrum. Initially developed...
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    shortened it to just "100% solid state". LED displays can be said to be truly 100% solid-state. Condensed matter physics Laser diode Materials science Semiconductor...
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    simulated small-boat attacker. LaWS uses an infrared beam from a solid-state laser array which can be tuned to high output to destroy a target or low...
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    An Er:YAG laser (erbium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet laser, erbium YAG laser) is a solid-state laser whose active laser medium is erbium-doped yttrium...
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    Laser ablation or photoablation (also called laser blasting) is the process of removing material from a solid (or occasionally liquid) surface by irradiating...
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  • diffraction-limited, high-quality optical beam. Fiber lasers are compact compared to solid-state or gas lasers of comparable power, because the fiber can be bent...
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    traditional "dry" laser cutting are high dicing speeds, parallel kerf, and omnidirectional cutting. Fiber lasers are a type of solid-state laser that is rapidly...
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  • successfully tested a 1 kW solid state laser weapon mounted on a converted Avenger anti aircraft vehicle in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. The laser successfully destroyed...
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  • An Er:glass laser (erbium-doped glass laser) is a solid-state laser whose active laser medium is erbium-doped glass. Ytterbium (Yb) is sometimes added...
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