Title :
Self-starting KLM Ti:Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/ laser using semiconductor-doped glass structures
Author :
Bilinsky, I.P. ; Bouma, B.E. ; Fujimoto, J.G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. We have demonstrated a novel and simple wedge-shaped saturable absorber structure based on commercial semiconductor-doped glass. We have successfully used this colored glass device to mode lock a Ti:sapphire laser and, for the first time to our knowledge, to initiate Kerr lens mode locking (KLM). Semiconductor colored glasses can potentially serve as simple and inexpensive devices for initiating KLM and mode locking solid-state lasers.
Keywords :
alumina; laser mode locking; optical Kerr effect; optical glass; optical saturable absorption; solid lasers; titanium; Kerr lens mode locking; Ti:sapphire laser; colored glass device; commercial semiconductor-doped glass; self-starting KLM Ti:Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/ laser; semiconductor colored glasses; semiconductor-doped glass structures; wedge-shaped saturable absorber structure; Glass; Laser mode locking; Materials science and technology; Mirrors; Optical materials; Power generation; Power lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Solid lasers; Substrates;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-339-0
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.1998.676253
