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The Ti:Sapphire Laser

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The Ti:Sapphire Laser

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  • Author: Julien Klein
The first reported Ti:sapphire laser operation was performed in June 1982 by Peter Moulton at the 12th International Quantum Electronics Conference in Munich, Germany.1 It was the first time Ti3+ was used as the active ion for laser gain. In 1998, Spectra-Physics offered the first commercial Ti:sapphire laser, a broadly tunable continuous-wave model and, in late 1990, the first ultrafast Ti:sapphire laser, a picosecond mode-locked oscillator. Soon thereafter, the ultrafast and tunable laser communities quickly replaced their cumbersome dye lasers with the popular argon-ion-pumped Ti:sapphire systems, resulting in a sudden paradigm shift rarely seen in research.

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