Publications
- P. Loiko, S. Ghanbari, V. Matrosov, K. Yumashev, A. Major, “Dispersion and anisotropy of thermo-optical properties of Alexandrite laser crystal,” Optical Materials Express, Vol. 8, No. 10, 3000-3006 (2018)
- M. Nadimi, T. Waritanant, A. Major, “Thermal lensing in Nd:GdVO4 laser with direct in-band pumping at 912 nm,” Applied Physics B, Vol. 124, No. 9, 170 (2018)
- M. Nadimi, A. Major, “Continuous-wave dual-wavelength operation of a diode-pumped Nd:GdVO4 Laser at the 1063 & 1071 nm, 1063 & 1083 nm and 1083 &1086 nm wavelength pairs,” Laser Physics, Vol. 28, No. 9, 095001 (2018)
- R. Akbari and A. Major, “Kerr-lens mode locking of a diode-pumped Yb:KGW laser using an additional intracavity Kerr medium,” Laser Physics Letters, Vol. 15, No. 8, 085001 (2018)
- T. Waritanant, A. Major, “Dual-wavelength operation of a diode-pumped Nd:YVO4 laser at the 1064.1 & 1073.1 nm and 1064.1 & 1085.3 nm wavelength pairs,” Applied Physics B, Vol. 124, No. 5, 87 (2018)
- S. Manjooran and A. Major, “Diode-pumped 45 fs Yb:CALGO laser oscillator with 1.7 MW of peak power,” Optics Letters, Vol. 43, No. 10, 2324-2327 (2018)
- M. Nadimi, T. Waritanant, A. Major, “Discrete multi-wavelength tuning of a continuous wave diode-pumped Nd:GdVO4 laser,” Laser Physics Letters, Vol. 15, No. 5, 055002 (2018)
- A. Markov, A. Mazhorova, H. Breitenborn, A. Bruhacs, M. Clerici, D. Modotto, O. Jedrkiewicz, P. di Trapani, A. Major , F. Vidal, and R. Morandotti, “Broadband and efficient adiabatic three-wave-mixing,” Optics Express, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 4448-4458 (2018)
- S. Ghanbari, K.A. Fedorova, A.B. Krysa, E.U. Rafailov, A. Major, “Femtosecond Alexandrite laser passively mode-locked by InP/InGaP quantum-dot saturable absorber,” Optics Letters, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 232-234 (2018)
- S. Manjooran, P. Loiko, A. Major, “A discretely tunable dual-wavelength multi-watt Yb:CALGO laser,” Applied Physics B, Vol. 124, No. 1, 13 (2018)
- M. Nadimi, T. Waritanant, A. Major, “Passively mode-locked high power Nd:GdVO4 laser with direct in-band pumping at 912 nm,” Laser Physics Letters, Vol. 15, No. 1, 015001 (2018)
- R. Akbari and A. Major, “High-power diode-pumped Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:KGW laser,” Applied Optics, Vol. 56, No. 31, pp. 8838-8844 (2017)
- M. Kowalczyk, A. Major, J. Sotor, “High peak power ultrafast Yb:CaF₂ oscillator pumped by a single-mode fiber-coupled laser diode”, Optics Express, Vol. 25, No. 21, pp. 26289-26295 (2017)
- S. Ghanbari and A. Major, “High power continuous-wave dual-wavelength Alexandrite laser,” Laser Physics Letters, Vol. 14, No. 10, 105001 (2017)
- T. Waritanant and A. Major, “Discretely selectable multiwavelength operation of a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror mode-locked Nd:YVO4 laser,” Optics Letters, Vol. 42, No. 17, pp. 3331-3334 (2017)
- M. Nadimi, T. Waritanant, A. Major, “High power and high beam quality continuous-wave Nd:GdVO4 laser in-band diode-pumped at 912 nm,” Photonics Research, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 346-349 (2017)
- P. Loiko, J.M. Serres, X. Mateos, X. Xu, J. Xu, V. Jambunathan, A. Lucianetti, T. Mocek, X. Zhang, U. Griebner, V. Petrov, M. Aguiló, F. Díaz, and A. Major, “Microchip Yb:CaLnAlO4 lasers with up to 91% slope efficiency,” Optics Letters, Vol. 42, No. 13, pp. 2431-2434 (2017)
- P. Loiko, P. Becker, L. Bohaty, C. Liebald, M. Peltz, S. Vernay, D. Rytz, J.M. Serres, X. Mateos, Y. Wang, X. Xu, J. Xu, A. Major, A. Baranov, U. Griebner, and V. Petrov, “Sellmeier equations, group velocity dispersion and thermo-optic dispersion formulas for CaLnAlO4 (Ln = Y, Gd) laser host crystals,” Optics Letters, Vol. 42, No. 12, pp. 2275-2278 (2017)
- S. Manjooran and A. Major, “Efficient operation of a diode-pumped multi-Watt continuous wave Yb:KYW laser with excellent beam quality,” Laser Physics Letters, Vol. 14, No. 3, 035805 (2017)
- R. Akbari, K.A. Fedorova, E.U. Rafailov and A. Major, “Diode-pumped ultrafast Yb:KGW laser with 56 fs pulses and multi-100 kW peak power based on SESAM and Kerr-lens mode locking,” Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, Vol. 123, No. 4, 123 (2017)
- T. Waritanant and A. Major, “Diode-pumped Nd:YVO4 laser with discrete multi-wavelength tunability and high efficiency,” Optics Letters, Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 1149-1152 (2017)
- P. Loiko, S. Manjooran, and A. Major, “Polarization anisotropy of thermal lens in Yb:KY(WO4)2 laser crystal under high-power diode pumping”, Applied Optics, Vol. 56, No. 10, pp. 2937-2945 (2017)
Md.Z.E. Halim, R.C. Talukder, T. Waritanant, and A. Major, “Passive mode-locking of a Nd:KGW laser with hot band diode pumping”, Laser Physics Letters, Vol. 13, No. 10, p. 105003 (2016)
R.C. Talukder, Md.Z.E. Halim, T. Waritanant, and A. Major, “Multiwatt continuous wave Nd:KGW laser with hot band diode pumping”, Optics Letters, Vol. 41, No. 16, pp. 3810-3812 (2016)
R. Akbari, H. Zhao, K.A. Fedorova, E.U. Rafailov and A. Major, “Quantum-dot saturable absorber and Kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:KGW laser with >450 kW of peak power”, Optics Letters, Vol. 41, No. 16, pp. 3771-3774 (2016)
S. Ghanbari, R. Akbari and A. Major, “Femtosecond Kerr-lens mode-locked Alexandrite laser”, Optics Express, Vol. 24, No. 13, pp. 14836-14840 (2016)
- P. Loiko and A. Major, “Dispersive properties of Alexandrite and beryllium hexaaluminate crystals”, Optical Materials Express, Vol. 6, No. 7, pp. 2177-2183 (2016)
- T. Waritanant and A. Major, “High efficiency passively mode-locked Nd:YVO4 laser with direct in-band pumping at 914 nm”, Optics Express, Vol. 24, No. 12, pp. 12851-12855 (2016)
- S. Ghanbari and A. Major, “High power continuous-wave Alexandrite laser with green pump”, Laser Physics, Vol. 26, No. 7, p. 075001 (2016)
H. Zhao and A. Major, “Orthogonally polarized continuous wave dual-wavelength Yb:KGW laser induced by thermal lensing”, Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, Vol. 122, No. 6, p. 163 (2016)
T. Waritanant and A. Major, “Thermal lensing in Nd:YVO4 laser with in-band pumping at 914 nm”, Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, Vol. 122, No. 5, p. 135 (2016)
- R. Akbari, H. Zhao and A. Major, “High power continuous wave dual-wavelength operation of a diode-pumped Yb:KGW laser“, Optics Letters, Vol. 41, No. 7, pp. 1601-1604 (2016)
- H. Zhao and A. Major, “Megawatt peak power level sub-100 fs Yb:KGW oscillators“, Optics Express, Vol. 22, No. 25, pp. 30425-30431 (2014)
- H. Zhao and A. Major, “Dynamic characterization of intracavity losses in broadband quasi-three-level lasers“, Optics Express, Vol. 22, No. 22, pp. 26651-26658 (2014)
- L. B. Mostaco-Guidolin, M. G. Sowa, E. K. Kohlenberg, M. S. D. Smith, M. Hewko, A. Major, A. C-T Ko, “Quantitative nonlinear optical assessment of atherosclerosis progression in rabbits“, Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 86, No. 13, pp. 6346-6354 (2014)
H. Mirzaeian, S. Manjooran and A. Major, “A simple technique for accuarte characterization of thermal lens in solid state lasers“, SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 9288, p. 928802-1 (2014)
- E. Alimohammadian and A. Major, “Modeling of a CW Nd:YVO laser longitudinally pumped by high power VCSEL modules at 808 nm“, SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 8959, p. 89591D-1 (2014)
- L. B. Mostaco-Guidolin, A. C-T Ko, M. Hewko, M. Shiomi, A. Major, M. G. Sowa, “Evaluating collagen morphology and pathological lipid deposition using multiphoton image statistics“, SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 8948, p. 89482A-1 (2014)
- H. Zhao and A. Major, “Powerful 67 fs Kerr-lens mode-locked prismless Yb:KGW oscillator“, Optics Express, Vol. 21, No. 26, pp. 31846-31851 (2013)
- H. Zhao and A. Major, “A continuous wave Yb:KGW laser with polarization-independent pump absorption“, Laser Physics, Vol. 23, No. 9, pp. 095001 (2013)
- L. B. Mostaco-Guidolin, A. C-T Ko, F. Wang, B. Xiang, M. Hewko, G. Tian, A. Major, M. G. Sowa, “Collagen morphology and texture analysis: from statistics to classification“, Scientific Reports, Vol. 3, 2190 (2013) (highlighted in Extracellular Matrix News 4.28)
- R. Akbari and A. Major, “Optical, spectral and phase-matching properties of BIBO, BBO and LBO crystals for optical parametric oscillation in the visible and near-infrared wavelength ranges“, Laser Physics, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 035401 (2013)
- A. C-T. Ko, A. Ridsdale, L. B. Mostaco-Guidolin, A. Major, A. Stolow, M. G. Sowa, “Nonlinear optical microscopy in decoding arterial diseases“, Biophysical Reviews, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 323-334 (2012)
- S. Manjooran, H. Zhao, I. T. Lima Jr., and A. Major, “Phase-matching properties of PPKTP, MgO:PPSLT and MgO:PPcLN for ultrafast optical parametric oscillation in the visible and near-infrared ranges with green pump“, Laser Physics, Vol. 22, No. 8, pp. 1325-1330 (2012)
- H. Zhao, K. Sukhoy, I. T. Lima Jr., and A. Major, “Generation of green second harmonic with 60% conversion efficiency from a Q-switched microchip laser in MgO:PPLN crystal“, Laser Physics Letters , Vol. 9, No. 5, pp. 355-358 (2012)
- W. Wang, A. Major, and J. Paliwal, “Grating-stabilized external cavity diode lasers for Raman spectroscopy - a review “, Applied Spectroscopy Reviews , Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 116-143 (2012)
- L. B. Mostaco-Guidolin, A. C-T Ko, D. P. Popescu, M. S. D. Smith, E. K. Kohlenberg, M. Shiomi, A. Major, M. G. Sowa, “Evaluation of texture parameters for the quantitative description of multimodal nonlinear optical images from atherosclerotic rabbit arteries“, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 56, No. 16, pp. 5319-5334 (2011)
- C. Williams, X.-D. Yang, G. Partridge, J. Usiskin-Miller, A. Major, P. Irani, “TZee: Exploiting the lighting properties of multi-touch tabletops for tangible 3D interactions“, Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011), pp. 1363-1372 (2011)
- A. Major, K. Sukhoy, H. Zhao, and I. T. Lima Jr., “Green sub-nanosecond microchip laser based on BiBO crystals“, Laser Physics, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 57-60 (2011)
- D. Sandkuijl, R. Cisek, A. Major, and V. Barzda, “Differential microscopy for fluorescence-detected nonlinear absorption anisotropy based on a staggered two-beam femtosecond Yb:KGW oscillator“, Biomedical Optics Express, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 895-901 (2010)
- H. Zhao, I. T. Lima Jr., and A. Major, “Peculiarities of temperature-dependent Sellmeier equations for periodically poled KTiOPO4 crystal in the near-infrared and visible ranges“, SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 7750, p. 77501D (2010)
- H. Zhao, I. T. Lima Jr., and A. Major, “Near-infrared properties of periodically poled KTiOPO4 and stoichiometric MgO-doped LiTaO3 crystals for high power optical parametric oscillation with femtosecond pulses“, Laser Physics, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1404-1409 (2010)
- I. T. Lima Jr., V. Kultavewuti, and A. Major, “Phasematching properties of congruent MgO-doped and undoped periodically poled LiNbO3 for optical parametric oscillation with ultrafast excitation at 1 μm”, Laser Physics, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 270-275 (2010)
- N. Prent, C. Greenhalgh, R. Cisek, A. Major, J. Aus der Au, S. Elmore, J. H.G.M. van Beek, B. Stewart, J. A. Squier, and V. Barzda, “Second harmonic generation microscopy reveals contraction dynamics in muscle cells”, Physics in Canada, Vol. 65, No. 3, pp. 129-132 (2009)
- A. Major, D. Sandkuijl, V. Barzda, “A diode-pumped continuous-wave Yb:KGW laser with Ng-axis polarized output”, Laser Physics Letters, Vol. 6, No. 11, pp. 779-781 (2009)
- A. Major, D. Sandkuijl, V. Barzda, “Efficient frequency doubling of a femtosecond Yb:KGW laser in a BiB3O6 crystal”, Optics Express, Vol. 17, No. 14, pp. 12039-12042 (2009)
- A. Major, D. Hutchings, N. Langford, A. I. Ferguson, J. S. Aitchison, and P. W. E. Smith, “Two-photon absorption properties of crystalline KNbO3 at 430 nm and efficient high pulse energy blue second-harmonic generation”, Laser Physics Letters, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp. 450-453 (2009)
- A. Major, R. Cisek, D. Sandkuijl, and V. Barzda, “Femtosecond Yb:KGd(WO4)2 laser with >100 nJ of pulse energy”, Laser Physics Letters, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 272-274 (2009)
- A. Sharapov, A. Major and V. Barzda, “Development of a high power femtosecond optical parametric oscillator for biomedical imaging applications”, SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 7099, pp. 70992H1-70992H7 (2008)
- A. Major, R. Cisek, A. Tuer, N. Prent and V. Barzda, “Ultrafast Yb:KGd(WO4)2 laser for multimodal biomedical imaging with reduced photodamage”, SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 6881, pp. 688108-1 – 7 (2008)
- N. Prent, C. Green, C. Greenhalgh, R. Cisek, A. Major, B. Stewart and V. Barzda, “Inter-myofilament dynamics of myocytes revealed by second harmonic generation microscopy”, Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 0413181-0413187 (2008)
Thesis
R.C. Talukder, “High power continuous wave Nd:KGW laser with low quantum defect diode pumping”, MSc thesis, 2016
H. Zhao, "Powerful diode-pumped ultrafast solid-state laser oscillators based on bulk Yb:KGd(WO4)2 crystals", PhD thesis, 2015
L.B. Mostaco-Guidolin, "Multimodal characterization of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease with label-free non-linear optical imaging techniques", PhD thesis, 2015
Previous research highlights
- A. Major, R. Cisek, C. Greenhalgh, N. Prent, B. Stewart and V. Barzda, “Ytterbium-ion femtosecond laser reduces damage during biomedical imaging”, SPIE Newsroom (2006), http://spie.org/x8504.xml
H. Hogan, “Novel femtosecond light source aids biosensing”, Biophotonics International magazine, Vol. 13, No. 8, pp. 50-51 (2006)
- D. Nikbin, “Femtosecond laser offers high-speed DNA diagnostics”, Optics.org website (Institute of Physics, United Kingdom, 2006), http://optics.org/articles/news/12/7/2
Representative publications:
A. Major, R. Cisek and V. Barzda, “Femtosecond Yb:KGd(WO4)2 laser oscillator pumped by a high power fiber-coupled diode laser module”, Optics Express, Vol. 14, No. 25, pp. 12163-12168 (2006)
A. Major, P. Piunno, S. Musikhin, U. Krull and V. Barzda, “An extended cavity diode-pumped femtosecond Yb:KGW laser for applications in optical DNA sensor technology based on fluorescence lifetime measurements”, Optics Express, Vol. 14, No. 12, pp. 5285-5294 (2006)
A. Major, R. Cisek, C.A. Greenhalgh, N. Prent, B. Stewart and V. Barzda, “A diode-pumped high-power extended cavity femtosecond Yb:KGW laser: from development to applications in nonlinear biological microscopy”, SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 6343, pp. 634345-1 – 8 (2006)
A. Major, F. Yoshino, J.S. Aitchison, P.W.E. Smith, D. Zigmantas, V. Barzda, “Picosecond z-scan measurements of the two-photon absorption in beta-carotene solution over the 590-790 nm wavelength range”, SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 5724, pp. 269-276 (2005)
A. Major, J.S. Aitchison, P.W.E. Smith, F. Druon, P. Georges, B. Viana, G.P. Aka “Z-scan measurements of the nonlinear refractive indices of novel Yb-doped laser crystal hosts”, Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, Vol. 80, No. 2, pp. 199-201 (2005)