SELF-SEEDING IN A DUAL-CAVITY-TYPE PULSED TI-SAPPHIRE LASER-OSCILLATOR

被引:28
作者
KO, DK
LIM, G
KIM, SH
CHA, BH
LEE, JM
机构
[1] Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory, Korea, Taejon, Korea, 305-600, P.O. Box 105, Yusong
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D O I
10.1364/OL.20.000710
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We have constructed a self-seeded Ti:sapphire laser oscillator by using a dual-cavity configuration that consists of a Littman configuration cavity and a partially reflecting feedback mirror. This configuration can be decomposed with two kinds of cavity, a grazing-incidence cavity and a standing-wave cavity. The former behaves as an injection seeder and the latter as a slave oscillator. This Ti:sapphire laser system is capable of delivering a continuously tunable laser pulse with a narrow Linewidth. Injection at the laser emission region of the free-running Ti:sapphire laser resulted in essentially complete energy extraction.
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