Research interests Diode-Pumped Solid-State Lasers Diode-pumped Nd-based thin-disk lasers; Nd solid-state lasers pumped directly into the emitting level; Edge-pumped Yb:YAG laser with high output power; High power diode side-pumped Nd:YAG lasers, oscillator and MOPA configurations; Longitudinally/end pumped miniature solid-state lasers; Nd lasers passively Q-switched by Cr4+:YAG saturable absorbers; Generation of visible light (red, green, blue) and ultraviolet radiation in bulk nonlinear crystals or in quasi-phase-matched periodically poled MgO:LiNbO3 structures; Waveguide lasers written directly by fs-laser beam. Laser ignition.