Newly designed multilayer thin film mirror for dispersion compensation in Ti:sapphire femtosecond lasers

There are two different effects to generate group delay dispersion by multilayer thin film mirrors: chirper effect and Gires-Tournois effect. Both effects are employed to introduce desired dispersion in the designed mirror. Thus the designed mirror provides large dispersion throughout broad waveband. Such mirror can be used for dispersion compensation in Ti:sapphire femtosecond lasers. Most group delay dispersion of a 5-mm Ti:sapphire crystal can be compensated perfectly with only four bounces of the designed mirror.

Negative dispersion mirrors in Ta2O5/: SiO2 for femtosecond Ti : Sapphire lasers by using gires-tournois interferometers

We design and experimentally demonstrate some negative dispersion mirrors with optimized Gires-Tournois interferometers. The mirror structure is composed of 38 alternating Ta2O5 and SiO2 layers and could be regarded as two sections: high-reflectivity section consisting of a series of quarter-wavelength optical thickness stacks and negative-dispersion section consisting of only 13 layers. The designed mirrors exhibit the expected performance. These mirrors were fabricated by using ion beam sputtering. By adopting such mirrors, dispersion of a mode-locked femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser has been compensated for mostly. With two series of the mirrors, 32 fs and 15 fs pulses have been obtained respectively.

一种用于Yb：YAG激光器的波长分离膜的研制

以1030nm高反．940。980nm高透的波长分离膜作为实例，为提高该薄膜元件的波长分离效果，从膜系的优化方面做了一系列的研究。诸如采用带通滤光片的设计思想，在膜堆两侧加入了匹配层，调整膜堆的周期厚度，并用膜系设计软件对通带作进一步的优化。通过这一系列的优化设计后．利用RF双离子柬溅射工艺在BK7玻璃基底上沉积样品薄膜，并在基底背面加镀通带增透膜。结果显示，透射带在940和980nm处的透过率分别为97．73％和93．63％．反射带在1030nm的反射率为99．99％。对所制备的样品薄膜进行了激光损伤阈