Akira Shirakawa

Pulse-front-matched optical parametric amplification for sub-10-fs pulse generation tunable in the visible and near infrared

Akira Shirakawa, I. Sakane, Takayoshi Kobayashi · Optics Letters · 1998 · 251 citations

Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Optics +15

Coherent addition of fiber lasers by use of a fiber coupler

Akira Shirakawa, T. Saitou, Tomoki Sekiguchi et al. · Optics Express · 2002 · 229 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Physics +14

Noncollinearly phase-matched femtosecond optical parametric amplification with a 2000 cm−1 bandwidth

Akira Shirakawa, Takayoshi Kobayashi · Applied Physics Letters · 1998 · 144 citations

Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Optics +15

Yb3+:Y2O3 Ceramics -- a Novel Solid-State Laser Material

Jianren Lu, K. Takaichi, T. Uematsu et al. · Japanese Journal of Applied Physics · 2002 · 136 citations

Natural Sciences, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +17

Diode-pumped ultrashort-pulse generation based on Yb^3+:Sc_2O_3 and Yb^3+:Y_2O_3 ceramic multi-gain-media oscillator

Masaki Tokurakawa, Akira Shirakawa, Ken‐ichi Ueda et al. · Optics Express · 2009 · 110 citations · Full text

Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Optical Materials +16