A self-tunable Titanium Sapphire laser by rotating a set of parallel plates of active material.

In a recent work, the authors reported the experimental demonstration of wavelength tuning in a single birefringent plate of Ti:sapphire crystal based on its own birefringence properties. In that device, the thickness of the active plate, limited by the width of the single order tuning spectral region, imposed a strong constraint in the power performance of the laser. The aim of this work is to overcome this limitation by using a set of several identical birefringent plates so that the wavelength tuning of the laser is obtained by synchronously rotating the plates in their own plane. A discussion about the laser performance is presented.

Wavelength tuning of Titanium Sapphire Laser by its own crystal birefringence.

We report for the first time to our knowledge an experimental demonstration of wavelength tuning in a broadband-emitting Ti: sapphire laser crystal based on its own birefringence properties. To investigate the tuning characteristics of the spectral filter, we have used Jones-Vector formalism. The calculated wavelength-selective tuning matches very precisely the experimental observations.

K5Nd(MoO4)4: a self-tunable laser crystal.

We report for the first time to our knowledge an experimental demonstration of wavelength self-tuning in a K5Nd(MoO4)4 broadband-emitting laser crystal (KNM), as well as a theoretical treatment of the system based on its birefringence properties. The self-frequency-tuning of the laser along the full spectral range of the KNM crystal was obtained by rotating a birefringent gain plate in its own plane. The gain plate was placed inside a resonator at Brewster's angle. The tuning characteristics of the spectral filter were obtained by use of the Jones vector formalism. The calculated wavelength-selective tuning precisely matches the experimental observations.