Abstract

We present a continuously tunable single-frequency continuous wave (CW) Ti:Sapphire (Ti:S) laser with modulation-free-locked intracavity lithium niobate (LiNbO <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">3</sub> ) birefringent etalon (BE), which is implemented by detecting the polarization state variation of the reflected laser beam from the BE. After the BE is stably locked, the continuous frequency-scanning range up to 40 GHz is obtained within the tuning range of 300 nm while the resonator length of the Ti:S laser is continuously scanned. Because the modulation signal is unnecessary in the presented Ti:S laser system, the influences of the extra modulation signal on the intensity noise as well as the frequency noise of the laser are thoroughly eliminated and the modulation-noise-free continuously tunable single-frequency CW Ti:S laser is successfully attained.

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