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Efficient Frequency Doubling of a Low-Power Femtosecond Er-Fiber Laser in BiB3O6
No full textBiB3O6 (BIBO) crystal has been used for efficient second-harmonic generation (SHG) of a low-power femtosecond Er-fiber laser-amplifier system operating at 56 MHz. At the maximum input power of 65 mW, an internal conversion efficiency of 23% was achieved for SHG at 782 nm, with a pulse duration of 64 fs. A comparison with beta-BaB2O4 reveals superior properties of BIBO for such ultrashort-pulse ultra-broadband SH
Efficient picosecond traveling-wave Raman conversion in a SrWO</inf>4</inf> crystal pumped by multi-Watt MOPA lasers at 1064 nm
No full textRaman conversion with a 50-mm-long SrWO4 crystal in a single-pass, traveling-wave setup has been investigated in both purely steady-state and transient stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) regimes. For steady-state SRS experiment, we employed as a pump source a Q-Switched master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) laser system at 1064 nm, delivering 325 μJ, 550-ps-long pulses with diffraction limited beam quality and high spectral purity. At 2-kHz repetition rate, we obtained up to 90 μJ pulse energy and 250 ps pulse duration at 1180 nm, with a conversion slope efficiency close to quantum limit. To approach the transient SRS regime, we pumped the same crystal with 16-ps-long pulses from a hybrid MOPA laser system based on a mode-locked Yb-fiber oscillator followed by a diode-pumped bulk Nd:YVO4 power amplifier. At the maximum incident pump average power of 3.75 W, we obtained 1.4 W at the first Stokes Raman-shifted wavelength of 1180 nm (37 % optical-to-optical conversion efficiency), with 15 ps pulse duration and 70 % conversion slope efficiency
Difference-frequency generation of ultrashort pulses in the mid-IR using Yb-fiber pump systems and AgGaSe2
No full textWe employ AgGaSe2 for difference-frequency generation between signal and idler of synchronously-pumped picosecond / femtosecond OPOs at 80 / 53 MHz. Continuous tuning in the picosecond regime is achieved from 5 to 18 μm with average power of 140 mW at 6 μm. In the femtosecond regime the tunability extends from 5 to 17 μm with average power of 69 mW at 6 μm. Maximum single pulse energies of >1 nJ in both cases represent the highest values at such high repetition rates
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Threshold reduction and mode selection with uncoated Raman crystal acting as a low-finesse cavity
No full textWe report a stimulated Raman scattering threshold reduction by a factor of ∼4 using a simple uncoated SrWO4
crystal with plane/parallel faces pumped by 1.5 mJ, 11 ns single-frequency pulses at 532 nm. The weak etalon
effect is sufficient to shape both the spatial and spectral characteristics of the output Raman beam. The Raman
signal tends to be single-frequency close to threshold, which might be an interesting way to further seed Raman
amplifiers for high-energy Fourier-limited pulses at particular visible or near-infrared wavelengths
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Single-walled carbon nanotube saturable-absorber modelocked Tm:CLTGG laser
No full textWe report on the first passively mode-locked Tm3+-doped calcium tantalum gallium garnet laser generating 69-fs pulses at 2010.4 nm with an average power of 28 mW at a pulse repetition rate of ~87.7 MHz
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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