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

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

333

Lastpage

334

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1998.676253

Filename

676253