Vol 38, No 6 (2017)

We are sorry about omitting Yanzhong Chen and Jianguo He in the list of authors of the paper Experimental Study of a Diode-Pumped Nd:YAG Slab Laser Amplifier.

We review the quantizer–dequantizer formalism of constructing symbols of the density operators and quantum observables, such as Wigner functions and tomographic-probability distributions. We present a tutorial consideration of the technique of obtaining minimal sets of dequantizers (quorum) related to the observable eigenvalues for one-qubit states. We discuss a generalization of the quantizer–dequantizer scheme on the example of spin-1/2 states. We consider the possibilities of extending the results to two-qubit systems using spin tomograms of the state density matrix.

We consider peculiarities in the behavior of free electrons in an extremely-dense hot plasma with multiple ionization and partial degeneration. In different ways, we exhibit the strong Coulomb coupling of electrons and ions in the behavior of low- and high-kinetic-energy electrons. As a result, a necessity arises to consider, along with classical fast Debye electrons, their complementary cellular group of electrons constantly interacting with central ions of cells. We discuss the distribution of free electrons between the two groups, along with the role of two-group effects, of a not point character of ions in electron-transfer processes, and the consequences of the X-ray emitting X-pinch hot spot for the plasma. The existence of the physical limits for X-pinch plasma compression is among those consequences.

We demonstrate a diode-laser-pumped solid-state 1.06 μm laser using a novel YAG/Nd:YAG/YAG composite ceramics with a sandwich structure. We optimize the laser performance using different output couplers, pumping beam waists, and cavity lengths. A maximum CW output power of 11 W for the YAG/Nd:YAG/YAG-ceramic laser is obtained at an absorbed pump power of 25 W resulting in a slope efficiency of 49.4%. The excellent output performance shows that the novel YAG/Nd:YAG/YAGceramic material has a great potential in applications with diode-laser pumping.

We synthesize Ce³⁺-doped oxyfluoride glass ceramics (GCs) with different melting times employing the conventional melt-quenching method. We investigate the crystal structure and photoluminescence properties of Ce³⁺-doped GCs in detail in order to evaluate the effect of melting times on the downshifting properties. The photoluminescence properties revealed that the Ce³⁺ doped GCs have an intense emission band in the broad region from 480 to 600 nm under 427 nm excitation. We improve the energy-conversion efficiency of a-Si solar cells by 0.41%, from 5.02% to 5.43%, by incorporating the Ce³⁺-doped GCs with a melting time of 1.5 h. The above results indicate that Ce³⁺-doped GCs can be a promising candidate as downshifting materials for applications in a-Si solar cells.

We investigate experimentally the repetition operation of a 447.3 nm blue–violet lasers pumped by intracavity frequency doubling of an LD-pumped cesium vapor laser. We study the output performance of the 447.3 nm laser using am LBO crystal as an intracavity frequency doubler. We obtain maximum power in the repetition operation of 0.36 mW, and the slope efficiency does not decrease in the range of pump powers from 2 to 16 W. Our results show that the thermal effect can be reduced in the repetition operation. The optimized working temperature of the LBO is ~25^°C, with a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 4.1^°C.