Talk:List of laser types

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Added many new types of lasers (doubled the list size :o) which I feel pretty well completes the list (can't think of any other types out there), though there is still editing to be done... --Deglr6328 07:48, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Well there are certainly more lasers out there - we have Ce:LiSAF but not Cr:LiSAF, for instance; Cr:YAG, Co:MgF2, Pr:YLF, and Er:YAG to name just four more less obscure than some already listed, and I have a textbook with (at least) a hundred more solid-state lasers. It'll never been complete, but good job expanding it anyway. -- DrBob 20:21, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Cobalt lasers? Who knew. Anyway, there isn't much information online about many of these weird, seemingly, one time demoed lasers http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?1988IJQE...24.1100S so it would be great if you could add some from your book! :) Also I suspect that most of the difficult to realize lasers invented in the 70's and 80's have long since fallen totally out of use due to the advances in nonlinear optics, OPCPA, and tunable semiconductor lasers of today. Though this is no reason not to list them here of course. BTW what book is it that you are looking at? --Deglr6328 03:56, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

The book is Crystalline Lasers: Physical Processes and Operating Schemes by A.A. Kaminskii (CRC Press, 1996) and it has, at closer count, about 700 different solid-state laser media listed in it. As you say, practically speaking most of these are of little interest; whole swathes of them are obsoleted by Ti:sapphire, for instance. I'll try to add more on the some of the more useful ones I know about. -- DrBob 22:55, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Ow. my eyes! It would be more useful if this list were in some order. Possible useful orders would be, 'shortest lasing line', 'longest used lasing line', 'lasing line with highest gain', 'most commonly used lasing line', or 'date of discovery'. Since more information would be required for most of those sorts, I'll have to ask someone else to do it rather than doing it myself.

Doing it by longest used line or highest gain line would be a real PAIN, many different types have very close lasing lines and you'd need to get angstrom level wavelength accuracy to organize them all.....YUCK. But yes, the list should be organized. I think it should be done by material state of the lasimg medium (eg. gas lasers and metal vapor lasers, chemical jet lasers, doped crystal lasers, dye and liquid lasers, diode lasers, etc.) and then inside thsese categories simply alphabetically. I might get around to this.....someday...--Deglr6328 03:56, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

If we were really to be on the cutting edge, there should probably be some discussion regarding X-Ray lasers pumped by nuclear weapons. There certainly was work (apparently at least somewhat successful work) going on back in the early Star Wars / SDI days with Edward Teller hyping these heavily. Does anyone agree on their inclusion here?

Atlant 15:01, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sure! I've already added one made at RAL in the UK. Most of the others were demonstrated at LLNL's NOVA facility in the 80's and 90's. Pretty much the only thing in popular press is going to be "x-ray laser created with super powerful lasers" or some such. To get actual details on the mechanism of thier action, lasing wavelength etc. you'll probably have to go to primary sources like publications in phys. review letters or something.....good luck!--Deglr6328 17:31, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)

radiowave lasers[edit]

I was wondering if there really ARE radiowave lasers out there or not since there is apparently a x-ray laser. I have heard talks of radiowave lasers on other sites in regards to a Tesla Wireless Transmission of Power project, can someone tell me about this?

Most radiowaves are inherently coherent (in the way that laser beams are coherent light) as a natural result of the way they are generated. And if the radio antenna is large enough compared to the wavelength of the radio wave, a highly-directional beam of coherent radio waves can be emitted. Most radar operates in that fashion as do microwave communication links and the like. But yes, masers exist as well and they operate for microwaves exactly like lasers operate for light.

Atlant 23:11, 20 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

fiber lasers[edit]

This page completely ignores fiber lasers, which have shown to generate far higher average powers than conventional solid state lasers because of greatly reduced thermal stresses (H. M. Pask, R. J. Carman, D. C. Hanna, A. C. Tropper, C. J. Mackechnie, P. R. Barber, and J. M. Dawes, "Ytterbium-Doped Silica Fiber Lasers: Versatile Sources for the 1-1.2 µm Region," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 1, 2-13 (1995)) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.242.165.194 (talk) 04:47, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Where does this go?[edit]

In clearing red links out of cascade, I created a stub for quantum cascade laser. Could you experts check it for accuracy, and put it in the proper place on this list? Thanks! — Catherine\^talk 21:35, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

refs[edit]

Such an article should have long list of references. If you have some in hands, help please. dima (talk) 02:54, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've got my Verdeyen still lying around, but I wouldn't be able to start right away. — Laura Scudder ☎ 15:30, 12 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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WBS[edit]

What is a WBS laser? I can't seem to find the acronym means. Cheers! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.83.79.82 (talk) 18:20, 8 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Should metal-vapor lasers be a subcategory of gas lasers?[edit]

Metal-vapor lasers don't have their own article so far, but are listed as one specific type on the page for gas lasers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_laser#Metal-vapor_lasers.

If that's how they are classified, this should be reflected in the hierarchy of this page as well.

WaterSquirrel (talk) 09:37, 4 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]