A sapphire crystal doped with titanium ions absorbs this green pump light, putting ti3. We analyze the freerunning characteristics and the effective emission cross section of the laser. Awardwinning solstis is a next generation continuouswave ti. We describe the titanium sapphire laser, which is a vibronic laser, for simplicity, as a fourlevel laser fig. Sapphire show promise as a tunable, allsolidstate laser system. Pure sapphire al 2o 3 exists as a trigonal crystal, and titanium dopants typically at a density. Pure sapphire al2o3 exists as a trigonal crystal, and titanium dopants. Twentytwo years after the ruby laser was discovered, p. An onlinepdf version of this thesis is available at.
This fully automated, compact system features a completely sealed. They can be widely wavelengthtunable andor generate femtosecond light pulses. Frequency stabilization of a titaniumsapphire laser for precision. The millennia diode laser produces an infrared beam that is frequency doubled into the green to provide the pump beam for the femtosecond oscillator. A cw titanium sapphire laser pumped by an argon ion laser was used for. Deepultraviolet frequency metrology with a narrowband titanium. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. Sapphire emission on the basis of the absorption of radiation in water. Part of the springer series in optical sciences book series ssos, volume 52.
A more advanced and thorough overview is given in several books 33,34 and articles 35. Laser cutting system, lasers photonics handbook, lasersforlifesciencesproductguide formfirst. Sapphire laser designed to meet the needs of pioneering scientists looking for high performance, ease of use, system flexibility and reliability. In this paper, we investigate the noise performance and transfer in a titanium sapphire ti. Titanium sapphire laser an overview sciencedirect topics. Sapphire we begin by examining the crystal structure of ti. Nddoped solid state laser, which is in turn pumped by an array of semiconductor. Al 2 o 3 is a tunable laser which emits red and nearinfrared light in the range from 650 to 1180 nm. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors.
Continuouswave laser operation and quantum efficiency of. Tunable titanium sapphire lasers, presented at spie. As an example of a laser, we describe the titaniumsapphire laser. Titaniumsapphire refers to the lasing medium, a crystal of sapphire al2o3 that is doped. Intensity noise transfer through a diodepumped titanium.
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