TY - JOUR A1 - Eichler, Hans Joachim A1 - Haase, Alfred A1 - Menzel, Ralf T1 - 100 watt average output power 1.2*diffraction limited beam from pulsed neodym single rod amplifier with SBS- phaseconjugation BT - Onehundred watt average output 1.2*diffraction limited beam from pulsed neodym single rod amplifier with SBS- phaseconjugation T2 - Hundred watt average output power 1.2*diffraction limited beam from pulsed neodym single rod amplfier with SBS- phaseconjugation Y1 - 1995 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ostermeyer, Martin A1 - Heuer, Axel A1 - Menzel, Ralf T1 - 27 Watt average output power with 1.2*DL beam quality from a single rod Nd:YAG-Laser with phase conjugating SBS- mirror BT - Siebenundzwanzig Watt average output power with 1.2*DL beam quality from a single rod Nd:YAG-Laser with phase conjugating SBS-mirror Y1 - 1998 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ostermeyer, Martin A1 - Menzel, Ralf T1 - 34 Watt flash lamp pumped single rod ND:YAG laser with 1.2 * DL beam quality via special resonator design BT - Vierunddreißig Watt flash lamp pumped single rod ND:YAG laser with 1.2 * DL beam quality via special resonator design Y1 - 1997 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ostermeyer, Martin A1 - Menzel, Ralf T1 - 50 Watt average output power with 1.2*DL beam quality from a single rod Nd:YALO laser with phase-conjugating SBS mirror BT - Fünfzig Watt average output power with 1.2*DL beam quality from a single rod Nd:YALO laser with phase- conjugating SBS mirror Y1 - 1999 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kappe, Philip A1 - Ostermeyer, Martin A1 - Menzel, Ralf T1 - Active mode locking of a phase-conjugating SBS-laser oscillator N2 - We present a flashlamp-pumped Nd: YAG laser simultaneously emitting pulse structures on microsecond, nanosecond and picosecond time scales. Within a microsecond flashlamp pump pulse a nonlinear reflector based on stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) generates several Q-switch pulses. The phase-conjugating effect of the SBS reflector provides a compensation of phase distortions generated inside the laser rod, resulting in transverse fundamental mode operation. Additional acousto-optic loss modulation inside the resonator leads to mode locking. As a result, each Q-switch pulse is subdivided into several picosecond pulses. Energies of up to 2 mJ for the mode-locked pulses with durations between 220 and 800 ps are demonstrated. The wide variability of the laser's temporal output parameters as well as its high beam quality make it a splendid tool for fundamental research in laser materials processing Y1 - 2005 SN - 0946-2171 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kappe, Philip A1 - Ostermeyer, Martin A1 - Menzel, Ralf T1 - Active mode locking of a phase-conjugating SBS-laser oscillator Y1 - 2005 SN - 0946-2171 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Unterhuber, Angelika A1 - Povazay, B. A1 - Bizheva, K. A1 - Hermann, B. A1 - Sattmann, Harald A1 - Stingl, A. A1 - Le, Trang A1 - Seefeldt, Michael A1 - Menzel, Ralf A1 - Preusser, Matthias A1 - Budka, Herbert A1 - Schubert, Christian A1 - Reitsamer, H. A1 - Ahnelt, Peter Kurt A1 - Morgan, J. E. T1 - Advances in broad bandwidth light sources for ultrahigh resolution optical coherence tomography N2 - Novel ultra-broad bandwidth light sources enabling unprecedented sub-2 pm axial resolution over the 400 nm-1700 nm wavelength range have been developed and evaluated with respect to their feasibility for clinical ultrahigh resolution optical coherence tomography (UHR OCT) applications. The state-of-the-art light sources described here include a compact Kerr lens mode locked Ti:sapphire laser (lambda(c) = 785 nm, Deltalambda = 260 nm, P-out = 50 mW) and different nonlinear fibre-based light sources with spectral bandwidths (at full width at half maximum) up to 350 nm at lambda(c) = 1130 nm and 470 nm at lambda(c) = 1375 run. In vitro UHR OCT imaging is demonstrated at multiple wavelengths in human cancer cells, animal ganglion cells as well as in neuropathologic and ophthalmic biopsies in order to compare and optimize UHR OCT image contrast, resolution and penetration depth Y1 - 2004 SN - 0031-9155 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kappe, Philip A1 - Menzel, Ralf A1 - Ostermeyer, Martin T1 - Analysis of the temporal and spectral output properties of a mode-locked and Q-switched laser oscillator with a nonlinear mirror based on stimulated Brillouin scattering N2 - The emission dynamics of a mode-locked laser oscillator with a nonlinear mirror based on stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) has been investigated with regard to its spectrum and to its intensity distribution. The investigation was carried out experimentally as well as by numerical simulations. The laser yields trains of pulses with measured durations of 410 ps and energies of the single pulse of up to 2 mJ. Two theoretical models describing the complex emission dynamics of a mode-locked SBS-laser oscillator are introduced. The first model consists of spectrally resolved laser rate equations and thus describes the mode locking in the frequency domain by the superposition of the longitudinal resonator modes. The SBS-Q-switch is incorporated by a phenomenological description of the time dependent SBS reflectivity. Numerical simulations based on this model yield the evolution of a few 100 longitudinal laser modes and the corresponding intensity distribution during the course of a Q-switch pulse with 10-ps resolution. The influences of the different components on the spectrum and thus on the pulse duration will be discussed. The second model describes all occurring dynamics in the time domain providing easy access to the study of misalignment on the output dynamics. Results of numerical simulations of both models and measurement results are compared Y1 - 2006 UR - http://pra.aps.org/ U6 - https://doi.org/10.1103/Physreva.74.013809 SN - 1050-2947 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Spitz, Christian A1 - von Seggern, David A1 - Grunwaldt, Gisela A1 - Menzel, Ralf T1 - Biochemical Diagnostics by Excited State Absorption Spectroscopy Y1 - 2002 SN - 0-8194-4365-4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mittler, Kay A1 - Lorenz, Dieter A1 - Menzel, Ralf T1 - Broadband operation of a gain-switched Ti:sapphire laser for measurements with the coherence radar Y1 - 1999 SN - 0277-786X ER -