Mr. Scott R. Karlsen Profile

Scott R. Karlsen

Engineering Fellow at Nlight Inc

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Publications (10)

Proceedings Article | 26 May 2011 Paper

Progress in commercial wavelength-stabilized high-brightness diode sources suitable for pumping Yb-doped fiber lasers

Aaron Brown, Paul Leisher, Geoff Fanning, Scott Lerner, Zhigang Chen, Ling Bao, Mike Grimshaw, Mark DeVito, Kirk Price, Keith Kennedy, Shelly Lin, Mitchell Reynolds, Scott Karlsen, Jay Small, Robert Martinsen, Jim Haden

Proc. SPIE. 8039, Laser Technology for Defense and Security VII

KEYWORDS: Holography, Reliability, Fiber lasers, Semiconductor lasers, Diodes, Fiber couplers, High power diode lasers, Volume holography, Fiber coupled lasers, Near field optics

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Proceedings Article | 21 February 2011 Paper

Reliability of high power diode laser systems based on single emitters

Paul Leisher, Mitch Reynolds, Aaron Brown, Keith Kennedy, Ling Bao, Jun Wang, Mike Grimshaw, Mark DeVito, Scott Karlsen, Jay Small, Chris Ebert, Rob Martinsen, Jim Haden

Proc. SPIE. 7918, High-Power Diode Laser Technology and Applications IX

KEYWORDS: Continuous wave operation, Reliability, Fiber lasers, Semiconductor lasers, Diodes, High power diode lasers, Heatsinks, Failure analysis, Fiber coupled lasers, Laser systems engineering

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Proceedings Article | 18 February 2010 Paper

High-brightness fiber-coupled pump laser development

Kirk Price, Scott Karlsen, Paul Leisher, Robert Martinsen

Proc. SPIE. 7583, High-Power Diode Laser Technology and Applications VIII

KEYWORDS: Materials processing, Laser development, Nd:YAG lasers, Solid state lasers, Fiber lasers, Semiconductor lasers, Diodes, Fiber couplers, Geometrical optics, Fiber coupled lasers

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Proceedings Article | 18 February 2010 Paper

KW-class industrial diode lasers comprised of single emitters

Kirk Price, Frank Pfeffer, Paul Leisher, Scott Karlsen, Robert Martinsen

Proc. SPIE. 7583, High-Power Diode Laser Technology and Applications VIII

KEYWORDS: Polarization, Metals, High power lasers, Reliability, Fiber lasers, Semiconductor lasers, Collimation, Diodes, Fiber coupled lasers, Laser systems engineering

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Proceedings Article | 7 May 2009 Paper

High brightness diode laser module development at nLIGHT Photonics

Kirk Price, Scott Karlsen, Aaron Brown, Mitch Reynolds, Ron Mehl, Paul Leisher, Steve Patterson, Jake Bell, Rob Martinsen

Proc. SPIE. 7325, Laser Technology for Defense and Security V

KEYWORDS: Lithium, Cladding, Laser development, Fiber lasers, Semiconductor lasers, Photonics, Collimation, Diodes, Fiber couplers, Fiber coupled lasers

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Proceedings Article | 24 February 2009 Paper

100-W 105-um 0.15NA fiber coupled laser diode module

Scott Karlsen, R. Kirk Price, Mitch Reynolds, Aaron Brown, Ron Mehl, Steve Patterson, Robert Martinsen

Proc. SPIE. 7198, High-Power Diode Laser Technology and Applications VII

KEYWORDS: Lithium, Cladding, Laser development, Fiber lasers, Semiconductor lasers, Collimation, Diodes, Free space optics, Fiber couplers, Fiber coupled lasers

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Proceedings Article | 24 February 2009 Paper

High-performance wavelength-locked diode lasers

Paul Leisher, Kirk Price, Scott Karlsen, David Balsley, Doug Newman, Rob Martinsen, Steve Patterson

Proc. SPIE. 7198, High-Power Diode Laser Technology and Applications VII

KEYWORDS: Optical design, Fiber Bragg gratings, Laser applications, Nd:YAG lasers, Solid state lasers, Semiconductor lasers, Diodes, Epitaxy, Er:YAG lasers, Absorption

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Proceedings Article | 14 April 2008 Paper

High-power diode lasers operating around 1500-nm for eyesafe applications

Steve Patterson, Paul Leisher, Kirk Price, Keith Kennedy, Weimin Dong, Mike Grimshaw, Shiguo Zhang, Jason Patterson, Suhit Das, Scott Karlsen, Rob Martinsen, Jake Bell

Proc. SPIE. 6952, Laser Source Technology for Defense and Security IV

KEYWORDS: Optical parametric oscillators, High power lasers, Crystals, Copper, Reliability, Nd:YAG lasers, Solid state lasers, Semiconductor lasers, Diodes, Er:YAG lasers

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Proceedings Article | 12 May 2006 Paper

High-power high-efficiency high-brightness long-wavelength laser diodes

Steve Patterson, Paul Crump, Jun Wang, Weimin Dong, Mike Grimshaw, Shiguo Zhang, Sandrio Elim, Suhit Das, Mike Bougher, Jason Patterson, Guokui Kuang, Jake Bell, Jason Farmer, Mark DeVito

Proc. SPIE. 6216, Laser Source and System Technology for Defense and Security II

KEYWORDS: Semiconductors, Optical parametric oscillators, High power lasers, Crystals, Nd:YAG lasers, Solid state lasers, Semiconductor lasers, Diodes, Er:YAG lasers, Laser dentistry

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Proceedings Article | 23 March 2000 Paper

532-nm pumped PPLT OPOs at 1 and 33 kHz

Jason Farmer, Scott Karlsen, Jonathan Seamans, Robert Batchko, Jan-Peter Meyn

Proc. SPIE. 3928, Nonlinear Materials, Devices, and Applications

KEYWORDS: Energy efficiency, Optical parametric oscillators, Lithium, Resonators, Output couplers, Crystals, Laser crystals, Photorefraction, Nonlinear crystals, Temperature metrology

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