Solid State Lasers

Dear Colleagues,

Solid-state lasers are a fundamental tool in several application fields and in applied material science. Despite the relatively mature age of this field, new materials with improved properties continuously emerge, triggering new developments and applications.

This Special Issue is devoted to novel materials for solid-state lasers, including (but not limited to):

- transparent ceramics with rare earths doping, to be used as active media; during the last years, ceramic solid active media have been produced with various shapes and using many active ions as dopants. Generally speaking, transparent ceramics present several advantages with respect to single crystals in terms of simplification of the growth process (lower sintering temperature), shape choices, toughness.

- new compositions for active media, in particular with partially disordered structure (both crystals and ceramics) allowing the broadening of the emission band for extended tunability and ultrashort pulse duration;

- fast saturable absorbers suitable for ultrashort pulse generation via passive mode-locking, based, for instance, on graphene, carbon nanotubes, or other materials.

- materials with active ions emitting in the visible spectrum, such as Praseodymium and Samarium

Therefore, new contributions on solid-state lasers are not only accepted but also strongly desired.

Dr. Matteo Vannini
Guest Editor

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