Iparraguirre Ignacio, Azkargorta Jon, Fernandez Joaquín, Balda Rolindes, Del Río Gaztelurrutia Teresa, Illarramendi M Asunción, Aramburu Ibon
Departamento Fisica Aplicada I, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería, Alda. Urquijo s/n 48013 Bilbao, Spain.
Opt Express. 2009 Mar 2;17(5):3771-6. doi: 10.1364/oe.17.003771.
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.
