Abstract

A polarizing laser mirror was made of an alternating sequence of low and high refractive index layers of titanium oxide using glancing angle deposition (GLAD). Large refractive index contrast and large birefringence, reaching 0.5 and 0.1, respectively, could be obtained from one single raw material by changing the deposition conditions. The laser mirror could withstand a train of 2.7 ns, single-mode pulses at 680 Hz, $\lambda =1030\mathrm{nm}$, and peak power density of $670\mathrm{MW}/{\mathrm{cm}}^2$ when used as an output coupler of a passively $Q$-switched ${({\mathrm{Yb}}_{0.1}{\mathrm{Y}}_{0.9})}_3{\mathrm{Al}}_5{\mathrm{O}}_{12}$ ceramic laser. The polarization extinction ratio was found to be better than 30 dB both in continuous-wave and pulsed regimes. These results indicate that polarizing laser mirrors made from nanostructured thin films with GLAD, in addition to being simple to fabricate, can withstand high pulse energy density.

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