An efficient continuous wave and passively mode-locked thulium-doped oxyorthosilicate Tm:LuYSiO5 laser is demonstrated. A maximum slope efficiency of 56.3% is obtained at 2057.4 nm in continuous wave ...operation regime. With an InGaAs quantum well SESAM, self-starting passively mode-locked Tm:LuYSiO5 laser is realized in the 1929 nm to 2065 nm spectral region. A maximum average output power of 130.2 mW with a pulse duration of 33.1 ps and a repetition rate of about 100 MHz is generated at 1984.1 nm. Pulses as short as 24.2 ps with an average output power of 100 mW are obtained with silicon prisms where used to manage the intracavity dispersion. The shortest pulse duration of about 19.6 ps is obtained with an average output power of 64.5 mW at 1944.3 nm.
The Tm,Ho:YAlO3 laser performance for two crystal orientations pumped by a wavelength tunable Ti:Sapphire laser is presented in this paper. An experimental investigation comparing a- and b-oriented ...Tm,Ho:YAlO3 crystals laser performance is demonstrated and discussed. Single- and multi-wavelength operations of Tm,Ho:YAlO3 lasers have been investigated in detail. The maximum output powers of 890 mW at 2119 nm for a-oriented Tm,Ho:YAlO3 crystal and 946 mW at 2103 nm for b-oriented Tm,Ho:YAlO3 crystal have been obtained, respectively. The two crystals show very similar performance in terms of output power and conversion efficiency, only that the b-cut Tm,Ho:YAP crystal demonstrates more regimes of multi-wavelength operations.
This is the first study of electron tunnelling through a quantifiable barrier of adjustable width. We find quantitative agreement between the measured and calculated tunnelling probability with no ...adjustable constants. The tunnel barrier is a thin film of 3He on Cs1 which it wets. We excite photoelectrons which have to tunnel through the barrier to escape. The image potential must be included in calculating the barrier and hence the tunnelling current. This has been a debatable point until now. We confirm that an electron has a potential of 1.0 eV in liquid 3He for short times before a bubble forms. We show that the thickness of the 3He is given by thermodynamics for films of thickness at least down to 3 monolayers.
Time-resolved x-ray diffraction measures the dynamics of antiferromagnetic correlations by reconstructing the reciprocal-space scattering volume for the magnetic Bragg peak. Modifications in the ...scattering line shape along the three principal reciprocal lattice directions are measured.
Static strain in complex oxide heterostructures1,2 has been extensively used to engineer electronic and magnetic properties at equilibrium3. In the same spirit, deformations of the crystal lattice ...with light may be used to achieve functional control across heterointerfaces dynamically4. Here, by exciting large-amplitude infrared-active vibrations in a LaAlO3 substrate we induce magnetic order melting in a NdNiO3 film across a heterointerface. Femtosecond resonant soft X-ray diffraction is used to determine the spatiotemporal evolution of the magnetic disordering. We observe a magnetic melt front that propagates from the substrate interface into the film, at a speed that suggests electronically driven motion. Lastly, light control and ultrafast phase front propagation at heterointerfaces may lead to new opportunities in optomagnetism, for example by driving domain wall motion to transport information across suitably designed devices.
Time resolved x-ray diffraction measures the dynamics of antiferromagnetic correlations by reconstructing the reciprocal-space scattering volume for the magnetic Bragg peak. Modifications in the ...scattering line shape along the three principal reciprocal lattice directions are measured.
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