Ti 3+ ion concentration and Ti:sapphire laser performance

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1221-1230

  McKinnie, Iain T ^a,b,c,d,e   Oien, AnnMarie L ^a   Warrington, Don M ^a,c,f   Tonga, Paul N ^a,e   Gloster, Lawrence A W ^b   King, Terence A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d Photonics Graduate Program   (New Zealand)

^e OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^f American Association of Physics Teachers   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser media; Pulsed lasers; Solid state lasers; Ti:sapphire lasers; Tunable lasers; Vibronic lasers

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; CRYSTALS; IONS; LASER PULSES; LASER TUNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PUMPING; TITANIUM;

ION CONCENTRATION; TITANIUM SAPPHIRE LASERS; TUNABLE LASERS; VIBRONIC LASERS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0031185333     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.594888     Document Type: Article

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