We present a tunable single-frequency CW Ti:sapphire laser with intensity noise manipulation. The manipulation of the laser intensity noise is realized by varying the frequency of the modulation signal loaded on the electrodes of an intracavity electro-optic etalon. A lithium niobate (LiNbO3) crystal is used to act as the electro-optic etalon, and its electro-optic effect is utilized to modulate the intracavity laser intensity for locking itself to the oscillating wavelength of the laser to implement continuous frequency-tuning. When the electro-optic etalon is locked to the oscillating mode of the Ti:sapphire laser with arbitrarily selected modulation frequency, the maximal continuous frequency-tuning range can reach to 20 GHz, and the laser intensity noise is successfully manipulated simultaneously.
We present a novel and efficient scheme to enhance the stability of laser output via feedback control to a nonlinear loss deliberately introduced to the laser resonator. By means of the feedback control to the intracavity nonlinear loss of an all-solid-state continuous-wave single-frequency laser with high output power at 1064 nm, its intensity and frequency stabilities are significantly improved. A lithium triborate crystal is deliberately placed inside the laser resonator to be an element of the nonlinear loss, and the temperature of the crystal is feedback controlled by an electronic loop. The control signal is generated by distinguishing the deviation of the output power and used for manipulating the intracavity nonlinear loss to compensate the deviation of the laser power actively. With the feedback-control loop, the intensity and frequency fluctuations of the output laser at 1064 nm are reduced from ±0.59% and 21.82 MHz without the feedback to ±0.26% and 9.84 MHz, respectively.
We present a continuously tunable high-power continuous wave (CW) single-frequency (SF) Nd : YAlO 3 /lithium triborate (Nd:YAP/LBO) laser with dual-wavelength output, which is implemented by combining an optimized and locked etalon with an intracavity nonlinear loss. The obtained output powers of the stable SF 1080 and 540 nm lasers are 2.39 and 4.18 W, respectively. After the etalon is locked to an oscilating mode of the laser, the wideband continuous frequency tuning and long-term stable single-longitudinal-mode operation of the laser are successfully realized, which can be well used for the applications of quantum information and quantum computation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first realization of the continuously tunable high-power CW SF 1080/540 nm dual-wavelength laser.
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