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Recent Publications

Wavelength Stabilization and Spectral Narrowing of Lasers

 

N. Vorobiev, L. Glebov, and V. Smirnov, "Single-frequency-mode Q-switched Nd:YAG and Er:glass lasers controlled by volume Bragg gratings," Opt. Express 16, 9199-9204 (2008)

 

A. Gourevitch, G. Venus, V. Smirnov, D. A. Hostutler, and L. Glebov, "Continuous wave, 30 W laser-diode bar with 10 GHz linewidth for Rb laser pumping," Opt. Lett. 33, 702-704 (2008).

 

L.Glebov, Invited Paper: “Volume Bragg Gratings in PTR Glass--New Optical Elements for Laser Design”, 23rd Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) Topical Meeting. ASSP Technical Digest, Paper Code MD1, Nara, Japan, January 2008.

 

A. Gourevitch, G. Venus, V. Smirnov, and L. Glebov, "Efficient pumping of Rb vapor by high-power volume Bragg diode laser" Opt. Lett. 32 (2007) 2611-2613.

 

L.Glebov. Invited paper: “High brightness laser design based on volume Bragg gratings.” Laser Source and System Technology for Defense and Security II. Proceedings of SPIE 6216 (2006) 621601.

 

"Volumetric Bragg grating dramatically cuts laser bandwidth," Photonics Spectra, March 2006. 

 

L.Glebov. “Optimizing and Stabilizing Diode Laser Spectral Parameters.“ Photonics Spectra, January 2005.

  

 

Chirped Bragg Gratings for Ultrashort Pulse Stretching and Compressing

 

G. Chang, M. Rever, V. Smirnov, L. Glebov, and A. Galvanauskas, "32 W Femtosecond Yb-Fiber CPA System Based on Chirped-Volume-Bragg-Gratings," in CLEO Technical Digest, San Jose, CA (June 2008), paper CThB3.

 

K.-H.Liao, M.-Y.Cheng, E.Flecher, V.I.Smirnov, L.Glebov, and A.Galvanauskas, "Large-aperture chirped volume Bragg grating based fiber CPA system," Opt. Express 15 (2007) 4876-4882.

 

G.Chang, C.-H. Liu, K.-H. Liao, V.Smirnov, L.Glebov, and A.Galvanauskas, "50-W Chirped-Volume-Bragg-Grating Based Fiber CPA at 1055-nm", 20th Annual  Solid State and Diode Laser Technology Review, SSDLTR-2007 Technical Digest, FW1-11, Los Angeles, CA, June 2007.

 

 

Spectral Beam Combination of High-Power Lasers

 

O.Andrusyak, D.Drachenberg, V.Smirnov, G.Venus, and L.Glebov, “Fiber laser system with kW-level spectrally-combined output," 21st Annual  Solid State and Diode Laser Technology Review, SSDLTR-2008 Technical Digest, Albuquerque, NM (June 2008), 2-6.

 

O.Andrusyak, I.Ciapurin, V.Smirnov, G.Venus, N.Vorobiev, and L.Glebov, “External and common-cavity high spectral density beam combining of high power fiber lasers", Fiber Lasers V: Technology, Systems, and Applications; Eds: J.Broeng; C.Headley. Proceedings of SPIE 6873 (2008) 685314.

 

A.Sevian, O.Andrusyak, I.Ciapurin, G.Venus, V.Smirnov, and L.Glebov, "Efficient Power Scaling of Laser Radiation by Spectral Beam Combining", Opt. Lett. 33 (2008) 384-386

 

A.Sevian, O.Andrusyak, I.Ciapurin, G.Venus, V.Smirnov, and L.Glebov, "Efficient Power Scaling of Laser Radiation by Spectral Beam Combining: Erratum", Opt. Lett. 33 (2008) 760

 

 

Narrowband Filters

 

J.Lumeau, V.Smirnov, and L.Glebov, "Phase-shifted volume Bragg gratings in photo-thermo-refractive glass", Proceeding of SPIE 6890 (2008) 68900A

 

J.Lumeau, L.Glebov, and V.Smirnov, "Tunable narrowband filter based on a combination of Fabry-Perot etalon and volume Bragg grating," Opt. Lett. 31 (2006) 2417-2419.

 

J.Lumeau, V.Smirnov, and L.Glebov, "Tunable narrow band filters for laser applications", 19th Annual  Solid State and Diode Laser Technology Review, SSDLTR-2006 Technical Digest, Paper P-5, Albuquerque, NM, June 2006.

 

I.Ciapurin, L.Glebov, and V.Smirnov. "Gradual Holographic Filters for High Power Lasers." 16th Annual  Solid State and Diode Laser Technology Review, SSDLTR-2003 Technical Digest, Paper P-11, Albuquerque, NM, June 2003.

 

 

Theory of Volume Bragg Gratings

 

L.Glebov, J.Lumeau, S.Mokhov, V.Smirnov and B.Zeldovich, "Reflection of light by composite volume holograms: Fresnel corrections and Fabry-Perot spectral filtering", JOSA A 25 (2008) 751-764.

 

I.Ciapurin, L.Glebov, and V.Smirnov. “Modeling of phase volume diffractive gratings, part 1: Transmitting sinusoidal uniform gratings." Optical Engineering 45 (2006) 015802.

 

I.Ciapurin, L.Glebov, and V.Smirnov. “Modeling of Gaussian Beam Diffraction on Volume Bragg Gratings in PTR Glass." Practical Holography XIX: Materials and Applications. Eds: T.H. Jeong, H. Bjelkhagen. Proceedings of SPIE 5742 (2005) 183-194.

 

 

Properties of Photo-Thermo-Refractive Glass

 

J.Lumeau, L.Glebova, and L.Glebov, "Influence of UV-exposure on the crystallization and optical properties of photo-thermo-refractive glass", Journal of Non Crystalline Solids 354 (2008) 425-430

 

L.Glebova, J.Lumeau, M.Klimov, E.Zanotto, and L.Glebov, "Role of bromine on the thermal and optical properties of photo-thermo-refractive glass", Journal of Non Crystalline Solids 354 (2008) 456-461

 

L.Glebov, “Fluorinated silicate glass for conventional and holographic optical elements" Window and Dome Technologies and Materials X, Ed.: R.Tustison. Proceedings of SPIE 6545 (2007) 654507.

 

J.Lumeau, A.Sinitskiy, L.Glebova, L.Glebov, and E.Zanotto, "Spontaneous and photo-induced crystallization of PTR glass", Phys. Chem. Glasses: Eur. J. Glass Sci. Technol. B 48 (2007) 281-284

  

 

 Publications in Collaboration with other Research Groups / Industry

T.McComb, V.Sudesh, and M.Richardson, "Volume Bragg grating stabilized spectrally narrow Tm fiber laser" Optics Letters 33 (2008) 881-883.

L.Siiman, J.Lumeau, L.Canioni, and L.Glebov  “Third harmonic generation by volume Bragg grating in photo-thermo-refractive glass irradiated by IR femtosecond pulses", Nonlinear Frequency Generation and Conversion: Materials, Devices, and Applications VII, Ed.: P.Powers. Proceedings of SPIE 6875 (2008) 687510.

A.Okishev, V.Smirnov, L.Glebov, and J.D.Zuegel, “An Optical Differentiator Based on a Regenerative Amplifier with an Intracavity Tunable Volume Bragg Grating Filter”, 23rd Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) Topical Meeting. ASSP Technical Digest, Paper Code WE32, Nara, Japan, January 2008.

S.Zolotovskaya, N.Daghestani, G.Venus, L.Glebov, V.Smirnov, and E.Rafailov, "Stable dual-wavelength operation of InGaAs diode lasers with volume Bragg gratings", Appl. Phys. Lett. 91 (2007) 171113

A.Okishev, C.Dorrer, V.Smirnov, L.Glebov, and J.D.Zuegel, "Spectral filtering in a diode-pumped Nd:YLF regenerative amplifier using a volume Bragg grating" Optics Express 15 (2007) 8197-8202.

C.Dorrer, A.Okishev, I.Begishev, J.D.Zuegel, V.Smirnov, and L.Glebov, "Optical parametric chirped-pulse-amplification contrast enhancement by regenerative pump spectral filtering" Optics Letters 32 (2007) 2378-2380.

A.Gusarov, D.Doyle, L.Glebov, and F. Berghmans, “Radiation-induced transmission degradation of borosilicate crown optical glass from four different manufacturers" Optical Engineering 46 (2007) 043004.

L.Aschke, J.Meinschien, V.Wirth, V.Smirnov, G.Venus, and L.Glebov, "Spectral stabilization of diode bar by volume Bragg grating incorporated in fast axis collimator", 20th Annual  Solid State and Diode Laser Technology Review, SSDLTR-2007 Technical Digest, Diode1-1, Los Angeles, CA, June 2007.

S.Riyopoulos, G.Venus, and L.Glebov, “Mode selection and phase locking of sidelobe emitting semiconductor laser arrays using an external cavity with a narrow-bandwidth volume grating" High-Power Diode Laser Technology and Applications Y. Ed.: M. Zediker. Proceedings of SPIE 6456 (2007) 645613.

C.C.Tsai, L.Glebov, and B.Zeldovich, "Adiabatic three-wave volume hologram: large efficiency independent of grating strength and polarization," Opt. Lett. 31 (2006) 718-720.

T.Chung, A.Rapaport, V.Smirnov, L.Glebov, M.Richardson, and M.Bass, "Solid-state laser spectral narrowing using a volumetric photothermal refractive Bragg grating cavity mirror," Opt. Lett. 31 (2006) 229-231.

 

Y.Kaneda, L.Fan, T.C.Hsu, N.Peyghambarian, M.Fallahi, A.Zakharian, J.Hader, J.Moloney, W.Stoltz, S.Koch, R.Bedford, A.Sevian, and L.Glebov, "High brightness spectral beam combination of high-power vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers," IEEE Photonics Technology Lett. 18 (2006) 1795-1797.

S.Santran, M. Martinez-Rosas, L.Canioni, L.Sarger, L.Glebova, A.Tirpak, and L.Glebov. "Nonlinear refractive index of photo-thermo-refractive glass." Optical Materials 28 (2006) 401–407.

A.Gusarov, D.Doyle, L.Glebov, and F. Berghmans, "Kinetic approach to the decomposition of radiation-induced absorption spectra" Jour. of Non-Crystalline Solids, 352 (2006) 3343-3349.

J.Zwanziger, U.Werner-Zwanziger, E.Zanotto, E.Rotari, L.Glebova, L.Glebov, and J.Schneider, "Residual internal stress in partially crystallized photothermorefractive glass: Evaluation by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and first principles calculations" J. Appl. Phys. 99 (2006) 083511.

J.M.Tsui, C.Thompson, V.Mehta, J.Roth, V.Smirnov, and L.Glebov. “Coupled-Wave Analysis of Apodized Volume Gratings.” Opt. Express 12 (2004) 6642-6653.