Publication: On the Q-switched operation of Titanium: sapphire lasers
using a graphene-based saturable absorber mirror
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2015-09
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We numerically demonstrate Q-switched operation of Titanium:Sapphire lasers using mono and multilayer graphene, deposited on a totally reflecting end mirror as a saturable absorber. Output energies, pulse duration and repetition frequencies of the Q-switched pulse trains are given as a function of the pump intensity for different number of graphene layers and cavity lengths. For the geometries studied, pulses from 17 to 491 ns can be achieved, with energies ranging from 11 to 74 μJ and repetition rates from 0.06 to 2.5 MHz. These results can be useful for designing and building laser cavities for Q-switched and mode-locked operation in laser media with short lifetimes as Titanium:Sapphire.
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© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. This work was partially supported by the projects Santander-UCM PR6/13-18875 and FIS2013-1709-P from MINECO. H. Crespo acknowledges Grant PTDC/FIS/122511/2010 from Fundaçâo para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal, co-funded by COMPETE and FEDER. Support from the European Science Foundation through the SILMI programme (Super-intense laser-matter interactions), Grant 6658, is gratefully acknowledged.
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