High efficiency multipass Ti:Sapphire amplifiers for continuous wave single mode laser

Patrick Georges (1) , Frederick Estable (2) , François Salin (1) , Jean-Philippe Poizat (3) , Philippe Grangier (3) , Alain Brun (1)

1 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Elsa
2 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Manolia
3 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Optique quantique

We present the amplification of a continuous-wave single-mode ring dye laser in Ti:sapphire. A peak gain of 2 X 106 has been obtained in a passive multipass amplifier, which yielded 20-nsec pulses of 0.7-mJ energy at 780 nm. We discuss the advantages of this passive multipass amplifier in comparison with a regenerative amplifier that we have also developed. By second-harmonic generation we obtained high-peak-power UV pulses from the amplified single-mode laser

Domains: Optics [physics.optics]

Patrick Georges, Frederick Estable, François Salin, Jean-Philippe Poizat, Philippe Grangier, et al.. High efficiency multipass Ti:Sapphire amplifiers for continuous wave single mode laser. Optics Letters, 1991, 16 (3), pp.144. ⟨hal-00691664⟩