Crystal growth and properties of Ti:Al2O3
- Received Date: 1992-09-08
- Accepted Date: 1992-11-08
- Available Online: 1993-03-25
Abstract: In this paper, we report a high optical quality crystal Ti:Al2O3 grown with the use of Czochralski method. The effect of growing and annealing techniques on the crystal quality has been discussed. At the room temperature, we obtain 6.4mJ laser output(at 780nm wavelength), using Ti:Al2O3 laser rod 14.8mm long and a resonant cavity with the dispersion elements while a double frequency Nd:YAG laser(532nm wavelength, 35mJ output power) excites the laser. The laser efficiency is high up to 18%.