Abstract

We show that the transient spectrum of a continuous-wave Ti:sapphire laser during the initial stage of the buildup, which exhibits multiple clusters (of longitudinal modes), is due to the spectral windowing effect of the Brewster-angle-cut Ti:sapphire crystal, which acts as a birefringent filter in the laser cavity. This effect is also responsible for certain spectral features of a passively mode-locked Ti:sapphire/DDI laser.

© 1992 Optical Society of America

Buildup dynamics of the spectrum and the average output power of a homogeneously broadened continuous-wave Ti:sapphire laser

Ci-Ling Pan, Jahn-Chung Kuo, Chin-Der Hwang, Jia-Min Shieh, Y. Lai, C.-S. Chang, and Kaung-Hsiung Wu
Opt. Lett. 17(14) 994-996 (1992)

Pulse-forming dynamics of a cw passively mode-locked Ti:sapphire/DDI laser

Jahn-Chung Kuo, Jia-Min Shieh, Chin-Der Hwang, C.-S. Chang, Ci-Ling Pan, and Kaung-Hsiung Wu
Opt. Lett. 17(5) 334-336 (1992)

Effect of dye concentration on picosecond and femtosecond cw passively mode-locked Ti:sapphire/DDI lasers

Ci-Ling Pan, Chin-Der Hwang, Jahn-Chung Kuo, Jia-Min Shieh, and Kaung-Hsiung Wu
Opt. Lett. 17(20) 1444-1446 (1992)

Effects of intracavity dispersion on the starting dynamics of continuous-wave passively mode-locked Ti:sapphire/DDI lasers

Jia-Min Shieh, Hwa-Ming Twu, and Ci-Ling Pan
Opt. Lett. 21(14) 1058-1060 (1996)

Pulse evolution dynamics of a femtosecond passively mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser

Nobuhiko Sarukura and Yuzo Ishida
Opt. Lett. 17(1) 61-63 (1992)