Virtual Special Issue for the 60th Anniversary of the Laser's Invention

The first working laser was demonstrated by Theodore Harold Maiman on May 16, 1960, and now we are celebrating it as the International Day of Light. This page collects the laser articles published by CLP Press in recent years, which are classified by categories. We look back at the contributions of a laser luminary, marvel at today's laser research, and look forward to the laser capabilities of the near future.

Contents

Ultrafast lasers

Photonic crystal rod-based high-performance ultrafast fiber laser system

Zhiguo Lv, Zhi Yang, Qianglong Li, Feng Li, Yishan Wang, Wei Zhao, and Xiaojun Yang

Jan. 5, 2021,  High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Vol. 8, Issue 4, 04000e40 (2020)
High power lasers

High-energy hybrid femtosecond laser system demonstrating 2 × 10 PW capability

François Lureau, Guillaume Matras, Olivier Chalus, Christophe Derycke, Thomas Morbieu, Christophe Radier, Olivier Casagrande, Sébastien Laux, Sandrine Ricaud, Gilles Rey, Alain Pellegrina, Caroline Richard, Laurent Boudjemaa, Christophe Simon-Boisson, Andrei Baleanu, Romeo Banici, Andrei Gradinariu, Constantin Caldararu, Bertrand De Boisdeffre, Petru Ghenuche, Andrei Naziru, Georgios Kolliopoulos, Liviu Neagu, Razvan Dabu, Ioan Dancus, and Daniel Ursescu

Jan. 5, 2021,  High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Vol. 8, Issue 4, 04000e43 (2020)
Laser damage

Laser-induced damage thresholds of ultrathin targets and their constraint on laser contrast in laser-driven ion acceleration experiments

Dahui Wang, Yinren Shou, Pengjie Wang, Jianbo Liu, Zhusong Mei, Zhengxuan Cao, Jianmin Zhang, Pengling Yang, Guobin Feng, Shiyou Chen, Yanying Zhao, Joerg Schreiber, and Wenjun Ma

Jan. 5, 2021,  High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Vol. 8, Issue 4, 04000e41 (2020)
Ultrafast lasers

Facile preparation of silver nanoparticles in bulk silicate glass by high-repetition-rate picosecond laser pulses

Danyang Shen, Jing Qian, Chengwei Wang, Guande Wang, Xuehui Wang, and Quanzhong Zhao

Dec. 18, 2020,  Chinese Optics Letters, Vol. 19, Issue 1, 011901 (2021)
Laser beam characterization

Generation of polarized particle beams at relativistic laser intensities

Markus Büscher, Anna Hützen, Liangliang Ji, and Andreas Lehrach

Nov. 23, 2020,  High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Vol. 8, Issue 4, 04000e36 (2020)
Laser damage

Potential damage threats to downstream optics caused by Gaussian mitigation pits on rear KDP surface

Hao Yang, Jian Cheng, Zhichao Liu, Qi Liu, Linjie Zhao, Chao Tan, Jian Wang, and Mingjun Chen

Nov. 23, 2020,  High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Vol. 8, Issue 4, 04000e37 (2020)
Lasers, fiber

Asymmetric pulse effects on pair production in polarized electric fields

Obulkasim Olugh, Zi-Liang Li, and Bai-Song Xie

Nov. 23, 2020,  High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Vol. 8, Issue 4, 04000e38 (2020)
Lasers, fiber

Single-frequency and free-running operation of a single-pass pulsed Ho:YLF amplifier

Yunpeng Wang, Youlun Ju, Tongyu Dai, Dong Yan, and Baoquan Yao

Nov. 23, 2020,  High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Vol. 8, Issue 4, 04000e39 (2020)
Semiconductor lasers, quantum cascade

Comparison of growth structures for continuous-wave electrically pumped 1.55 μm quantum dash lasers grown on (001) Si

Wei Luo, Ying Xue, Jie Huang, Liying Lin, Bei Shi, and Kei May Lau

Nov. 23, 2020,  Photonics Research, Vol. 8, Issue 12, 12001888 (2020)
Semiconductor lasers, quantum cascade

Generation of multi-channel chaotic signals with time delay signature concealment and ultrafast photonic decision making based on a globally-coupled semiconductor laser network

Yanan Han, Shuiying Xiang, Yang Wang, Yuanting Ma, Bo Wang, Aijun Wen, and Yue Hao

Oct. 29, 2020,  Photonics Research, Vol. 8, Issue 11, 11001792 (2020)
Diode lasers

A Yb:KGW dual-crystal regenerative amplifier

Huijun He, Jun Yu, Wentao Zhu, Xiaoyang Guo, Cangtao Zhou, and Shuangchen Ruan

Oct. 27, 2020,  High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Vol. 8, Issue 4, 04000e35 (2020)
Semiconductor lasers, quantum cascade

Extreme events in quantum cascade lasers

Olivier Spitz, Jiagui Wu, Andreas Herdt, Grégory Maisons, Mathieu Carras, Wolfgang Elsäßer, Chee-Wei Wong, and Frédéric Grillot

Oct. 23, 2020,  Advanced Photonics, Vol. 2, Issue 6, 066001 (2020)
Ultrafast lasers

Neural-network-assisted femtosecond laser pulse duration measurement using two-photon absorption

Junbao Chen, Ming Wang, and Wei Xia

Oct. 23, 2020,  Chinese Optics Letters, Vol. 18, Issue 12, 121901 (2020)
Ultrafast lasers

Simultaneous generation of controllable double white light lasers by focusing an intense femtosecond laser pulse in air

Yaoxiang Liu, Tie-Jun Wang, Na Chen, Hao Guo, Haiyi Sun, Lu Zhang, Zheng Qi, Yuxin Leng, Zhanshan Wang, and Ruxin Li

Oct. 23, 2020,  Chinese Optics Letters, Vol. 18, Issue 12, 121402 (2020)
Laser amplifiers

Cylindrical vector beam rotary Nd:YAG disk laser with birefringent crystal

Sanbin Chen, Jianlang Li, and Ken-Ichi Ueda

Oct. 23, 2020,  Chinese Optics Letters, Vol. 18, Issue 12, 121401 (2020)
Ultrafast lasers

Gamma-ray generation from ultraintense laser-irradiated solid targets with preplasma

Xiang-Bing Wang, Guang-Yue Hu, Zhi-Meng Zhang, Yu-Qiu Gu, Bin Zhao, Yang Zuo, and Jian Zheng

Oct. 16, 2020,  High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Vol. 8, Issue 4, 04000e34 (2020)
Lasers, fiber

Mid-infrared optical frequency comb in the 2.7–4.0 μm range via difference frequency generation from a compact laser system

Lian Zhou, Yang Liu, Gehui Xie, Chenglin Gu, Zejiang Deng, Zhiwei Zhu, Cheng Ouyang, Zhong Zuo, Daping Luo, Bin Wu, Kunfeng Chen, and Wenxue Li

Oct. 9, 2020,  High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Vol. 8, Issue 4, 04000e32 (2020)
Lasers, fiber

Greater than 2 kW all-passive fiber Raman amplifier with good beam quality

Yizhu Chen, Tianfu Yao, Hu Xiao, Jinyong Leng, and Pu Zhou

Oct. 9, 2020,  High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Vol. 8, Issue 4, 04000e33 (2020)
High power lasers

High absorption large-mode area step-index fiber for tandem-pumped high-brightness high-power lasers

Kang-Jie Lim, Samuel Kai-Wen Seah, Joash Yong’En Ye, Wendy Weiying Lim, Chu-Perng Seah, Yunn-Boon Tan, Suting Tan, Huiting Lim, Raghuraman Sidharthan, Arumugam Rajendra Prasadh, Chen-Jian Chang, Seongwoo Yoo, and Song-Liang Chua

Sep. 23, 2020,  Photonics Research, Vol. 8, Issue 10, 10001599 (2020)
Laser beam characterization

Spatiotemporal characterization of laser pulse amplification in double-pass active mirror geometry

Tinghao Liu, Qiang Liu, Zhan Sui, Mali Gong, and Xing Fu

Sep. 21, 2020,  High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Vol. 8, Issue 3, 03000e30 (2020)