Pulsed Ti:sapphire laser seeded off the gain peak
- 20 April 1996
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics
- Vol. 35 (12), 1999-2004
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.35.001999
Abstract
An external-cavity diode laser is used to seed a pulsed Ti:sapphire laser from 839 to 860 nm. Because this wavelength range is off the gain peak of Ti:sapphire, a bandpass filter is used in the cavity to permit seeded operation. We describe a tunable, wide-field-of-view birefringent filter especially suited for use in seeded lasers. Measurements of the ratio of unseeded to seeded output as a function of seed power are also presented and demonstrate an approximately reciprocal dependence on the seed power.Keywords
This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
- Electromagnetically Induced Transparency: Propagation DynamicsPhysical Review Letters, 1995
- Single-frequency, injection-seeded Ti:sapphire ring laser with high temporal precisionOptics Letters, 1992
- External-cavity diode laser using a grazing-incidence diffraction gratingOptics Letters, 1991
- Injection-seeded titanium-doped-sapphire laserOptics Letters, 1991
- Performance of gain-switched Ti:Al_2O_3 unstable-resonator lasersOptics Letters, 1990
- Pulsed injection control of a titanium-doped sapphire laserOptics Letters, 1986
- Stable single-axial-mode operation of an unstable-resonator Nd:YAG oscillator by injection lockingOptics Letters, 1980
- Spectrally narrow pulsed dye laser without beam expanderApplied Optics, 1978
- Birefringent tuning filters without secondary peaksOptics Communications, 1978
- Injection locking and mode selection in TEA-CO2laser oscillatorsIEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1976