%0 Journal Article
%A Erturk, Zekican
%A Okuyucu, Serdar
%A Kilinc, Muharrem
%A Ozturk, Yusuf
%A Pergament, Mikhail
%A Kärtner, Franz X.
%A Demirbas, Umit
%T Broadly tunable two-color lasing of Cr:LiCAF with on-surface and off-surface optical axis birefringent filters: performance comparison
%J Applied optics
%V 61
%N 36
%@ 1559-128X
%C Washington, DC
%I Optical Soc. of America
%M PUBDB-2022-07728
%P 10735 - 10743
%D 2022
%Z Collaborative work with external Institution   
%X We studied the two-color lasing performance of a Cr:LiCAF laser using crystal quartz on-surface and off-surface optical axis birefringent filters (BRFs). Four different on-surface optical axis BRFs with thicknesses of 2 mm, 4 mm, 8 mm, and 16 mm, and three different off-surface optical axis BRFs with a diving angle of 25° and thicknesses of 2 mm, 4 mm, and 8 mm have been tested. Two-color lasing operation could be achieved in tens of different pairs of wavelengths using both types of BRFs. Regular on-surface optical axis BRFs provided two-color lasing in the 772–810 nm interval, with a discretely tunable wavelength separation of 1 to 37 nm (0.5 to 17 THz). In comparison, the off-surface optical axis BRFs enabled scanning of two-color lasing spectra in a much broader wavelength range between 745 nm and 850 nm with a discretely tunable wavelength separation of 0.8 to 99 nm (0.4 to 46 THz). The results clearly demonstrate the advantages of using off-surface optical axis BRFs to achieve two-color lasing with broadly tunable wavelength separation.
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%$ 36606933
%U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000910846100015
%R 10.1364/AO.472548
%U https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/490411