Journal ArticleDOI
Broadly tunable high-power operation of an all-solid-state titanium-doped sapphire laser system
TLDR
Broadly tunable and high-power operation of a titanium-doped sapphire laser is obtained with a diode-laser-pumped frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser as the pump source.Abstract:
Broadly tunable and high-power operation of a Ti-doped sapphire laser is obtained with a diode-laser-pumped frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser as the pump source. A maximum broadband (FWHM = 25 nm) output pulse energy of 720 microJ at 795 nm in a TEM00 mode is obtained for 1850 microJ of energy of 532-nm pump light. A minimum pulse duration of 7 nsec is obtained from a 40-mm-long cavity. With the use of an intracavity prism, the Ti:sapphire laser is tunable continuously over the 696-1000-nm spectral range (with three different mirror sets).read more
Citations
More filters
Journal Article
Characteristics and kinetics of laser-pumped Ti:Sapphire oscillators
TL;DR: In this paper, the experimental performance of a gain-switched Ti:sapphire laser oscillator pumped by a frequency-doubled Q-switching Nd:YAG laser system is presented for a variety of operating conditions.
Patent
Side pumping arrangement
Jean-Marc Heritier,Edward C. Rea +1 more
TL;DR: The use of rectangular cross section gain material (26) with two or more cylindrical lenses (28, 30) placed in close proximity or attached to opposite sides (26a, 26b) of the gain material allows for an efficient pumping of the Gain material in an optical gain component as mentioned in this paper.
Journal ArticleDOI
Laser diode pumped solid state lasers
D W Hughes,J R M Barr +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review summarizes the properties of laser diodes which are advantageous for pumping solid state lasers and describes the diverse laser materials and configurations of solid state laser reported in the literature.
Journal ArticleDOI
Chirped-pulse amplification in Ti:sapphire beyond 1 /spl mu/m
TL;DR: In this article, a TEM/sub 00/Ti:sapphire regenerative amplifier exhibiting a net gain of 10/sup 9/ (from 10 pJ to 9 mJ) at 1053 nm with extremely stable energy output (/spl plusmn/3%).
Book ChapterDOI
Properties of Solid-State Laser Materials
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that pump bands within the emission spectrum of readily available pump sources such as arc lamps and laser diode arrays must have sharp fluorescent lines, strong absorption bands, and a reasonably high quantum efficiency for the fluorescent transition of interest.
References
More filters
Journal Article
Characteristics and kinetics of laser-pumped Ti:Sapphire oscillators
TL;DR: In this paper, the experimental performance of a gain-switched Ti:sapphire laser oscillator pumped by a frequency-doubled Q-switching Nd:YAG laser system is presented for a variety of operating conditions.
Journal ArticleDOI
Characteristics and kinetics of laser-pumped Ti:sapphire oscillators
TL;DR: In this paper, the experimental performance of a gain-switched Ti:sapphire laser oscillator pumped by a frequency-doubled Q-switching Nd:YAG laser system is presented for a variety of operating conditions.
Journal ArticleDOI
Crystal growth, spectroscopy, and laser characteristics of Ti:Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/
TL;DR: In this article, the vertical gradient-freeze technique has been used to grow laser-quality Ti:Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/ single crystals and room-temperature oscillator and amplifier experiments are reviewed.
Journal ArticleDOI
Performance of gain-switched Ti:Al 2 O 3 unstable-resonator lasers
Glen A. Rines,Peter F. Moulton +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe an experimental investigation of Ti:Al2O3 unstable-resonator lasers and obtain a near-diffraction-limited output of 430 mJ in a 10-nsec pulse at 10 Hz.
Journal ArticleDOI
Ti:sapphire laser pumped by a frequency-doubled diode-pumped Nd:YLF laser.
G. T. Maker,Allister I. Ferguson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a tunable all-solid-state (holosteric) laser system consisting of a Ti:sapphire laser pumped by a frequency-doubled diode-laser-pumped Nd:YLF laser was presented.
Related Papers (5)
Ti:sapphire laser pumped by a frequency-doubled diode-pumped Nd:YLF laser.
G. T. Maker,Allister I. Ferguson +1 more