Review of laser‐diode pumped Ti: sapphire laser

H Liu, S Sun, L Zheng, G Wang, W Tian… - Microwave and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ti: sapphire laser has an important position in ultrashort pulse generation and wavelength
tuning. The use of expensive frequency‐doubled diode‐pumped solid‐state laser as the …

Directly diode-pumped, Kerr-lens mode-locked, few-cycle Cr: ZnSe oscillator

N Nagl, S Gröbmeyer, V Pervak, F Krausz, O Pronin… - Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Lasers based on Cr^ 2+-doped II-VI material, often known as the Ti: Sapphire of the mid-
infrared, can directly provide few-cycle pulses with octave-spanning spectra, and serve as …

Ultra‐Low Threshold Titanium‐Doped Sapphire Whispering‐Gallery Laser

F Azeem, LS Trainor, A Gao, M Isarov… - Advanced Optical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Titanium doped sapphire (Ti: sapphire) is a laser gain material with broad gain bandwidth
benefiting from the material stability of sapphire. These favorable characteristics of Ti …

Multiphoton in vivo imaging with a femtosecond semiconductor disk laser

FF Voigt, F Emaury, P Bethge, D Waldburger… - Biomedical optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We use an ultrafast diode-pumped semiconductor disk laser (SDL) to demonstrate several
applications in multiphoton microscopy. The ultrafast SDL is based on an optically pumped …

Optimized InGaN-diode pumping of Ti: sapphire crystals

PF Moulton, JG Cederberg, KT Stevens… - Optical Materials …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The development of higher-power InGaN-based diode lasers facilitates their application to
optical pumping of Ti: sapphire lasers. Recent diode-pumping results highlight some …

Generation of multi‐gigahertz trains of phase‐coherent femtosecond laser pulses in Ti: Sapphire waveguides

C Grivas, R Ismaeel, C Corbari… - Laser & Photonics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Miniature lasers producing ultrashort phase‐coherent pulses at high repetition rates by
stable mode‐locking in ambient conditions can offer unique capabilities in various …

Direct diode pumped Ti: sapphire ultrafast regenerative amplifier system

S Backus, M Kirchner, R Lemons, D Schmidt… - Optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We report on a direct diode-pumped Ti: sapphire ultrafast regenerative amplifier laser
system producing multi-μJ energies with a repetition rate from 50 to 250 kHz. By combining …

Efficient few-cycle Yb-doped laser oscillator with Watt-level average power

F Labaye, VJ Wittwer, M Hamrouni, N Modsching… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
So far, the operation of ultrafast bulk laser oscillators based on Yb-doped gain materials and
directly emitting few-cycle pulses have been restricted to low optical-to-optical efficiencies …

Recent development of saturable absorbers for ultrafast lasers

M Zhang, H Chen, J Yin, J Wang, J Wang… - Chinese Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
As one of the greatest inventions in the 20th century, ultrafast lasers have offered new
opportunities in the areas of basic scientific research and industrial manufacturing. Optical …

Wavelength-multiplexed pumping with 478-and 520-nm indium gallium nitride laser diodes for Ti: sapphire laser

R Sawada, H Tanaka, N Sugiyama, F Kannari - Applied Optics, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally reveal the pump-induced loss in a Ti: sapphire laser crystal with 451-nm
indium gallium nitride (InGaN) laser diode pumping and show that 478-nm pumping can …