Ti:Sapphire (Ti:Sa) Crystal: Properties Study and Application
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Crystalline Materials".
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Special Issue Editors
Interests: ultra-high peak power lasers; high power lasers; laser physics; optics
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Interests: ultrafast lasers; femtosecond lasers; solid-state lasers; multiphoton imaging; OCT; micro-machining
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to publish your next research study in an upcoming Special Issue of “Crystals” journal. You are also welcome to review articles in the area of development and the production of Ti:Sa crystals, studying their properties and applications in the lasers and laser systems.
After the first publication devoted to the Ti:Sa properties investigation in 1985 (Peter Moulton), significant progress has been made in the research of the properties, size increasing, shape evolution, dopping, FOM, etc. of these crystals.
Ti:Sa, used as a working horse in chirped pulse amplification (CPA) laser systems, has resulted in several world record parameters of light pulses, such as power (10-20PW), intensity (1023W/cm2), pulse duration (few fs), and so on. Moreover, the development and investigation of this type of laser systems brought the Nobel Prize to a group of researchers two years ago (Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland).
The next generation of CPA systems with Ti:Sa crystals supposes to increase not only ultra-high peak power and intensity, but also the repetition rate, which is very important for industrial applications. Thin discs and slabs of Ti:Sa crystals with corresponding parameters modification are required for the successful realisation of these plans.
Thus, we are expecting a large interest in this issue in the engineering and scientific community and inviting original contributions containing new results in the fields of Ti:Sa crystals properties investigation, growth technology, Ti:Sa lasers (oscillators and amplifiers), and laser systems on a base of Ti:Sa crystals. The journal considers theoretical and experimental research in areas ranging from the fundamental properties of crystals to technology and applications.
Dr. Vladimir Chvykov
Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Bojan Resan
Dr. Roland Nagymihaly
Co-Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Ti:Sa crystals properties
- Ti:Sa crystals growth technology
- Ti:Sa lasers (oscillators)
- Ti:Sa amplifiers
- Ti:Sa laser systems
