Title :
Fabrication of Ti:sapphire thin films by pulsed-laser deposition
Author :
Uetsuhara, H. ; Goto, S. ; Nakata, Y. ; Vasa, N. ; Okada, T. ; Maeda, M.
Author_Institution :
Graduate Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan
fDate :
Aug. 30 1999-Sept. 3 1999
Abstract :
We describe the fabrication of Ti:sapphire thin films by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) and their optical characteristics. The reduction of droplets, which is always problematic in PLD, with a high-speed rotating target is also presented to achieve a low loss optical film.
Keywords :
drops; fluorescence; impurity absorption spectra; optical fabrication; optical films; pulsed laser deposition; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; Ti:sapphire thin film fabrication; droplet reduction; high-speed rotating target; low loss optical film; optical characteristics; pulsed-laser deposition; thin film solid laser fabrication; Fabrication; Fluorescence; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Optical films; Power lasers; Pulsed laser deposition; Pump lasers; Sputtering; Transistors;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO/Pacific Rim '99. The Pacific Rim Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seoul, South Korea
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5661-6
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.1999.817930
