Self-aligned, monolithic, solid microlaser with passive switching by a saturable absorber and a production process therefor
AssigneeCommissariat a l'Energie Atomique
InventorsEngin Molva, Jean-Jacques Aubert, Jean Marty, Jean-Michel Nunzi
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Abstract
A self-aligned, monolithic, solid microlaser with passive switching by a saturable absorber and a production process therefor. The cavity for the microlaser has a solid active medium, a saturable absorber, an entrance mirror and an exit mirror, wherein the saturable absorber is a thin film of saturable absorbent material directly deposited on the solid active medium.
Claims28
A microlaser cavity which comprises:
- a solid, active medium, a saturable absorber, an entrance mirror and an exit mirror, wherein the saturable absorber comprises a thin saturable absorber material film directly deposited on the solid, active medium.
A process for the production of a microlaser cavity having a solid, active medium, a saturable absorber, and entrance mirror and an exit mirror, wherein the saturable absorber includes a thin soluble absorber material film directly deposited on the solid, active medium, which comprises:
- a conditioning stage, at a predetermined thickness, of the material forming the solid, active medium,
- a stage of forming a saturable absorber film directly on one of the faces of the material prepared according to the preceding stage.
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