REG: Conversion of Highly Stabilized CW Ring Dye Laser to Titanium Sapphire

根据这项工程研究设备拨款，亚利桑那大学光学科学中心将把高度稳定的连续波染料激光器升级为钛蓝宝石激光器。这种升级后的激光器将专门用于工程研究，特别是光波技术。钛蓝宝石激光器将用于以下几个研究项目：a)测量在我们的Riber 32P MBE机器上生长的II- V半导体晶体的线性和非线性光学性质，例如应变层InGaAs/GaAs多量子阱；为了评估它们作为低能光调制器和低阈值激光器的潜力；b) mbe生长的连续波垂直腔面发射激光器的谱孔燃烧和不稳定性研究；c)表征特定mbe生长器件的非线性特性，例如我们的InGaAs/GaAs不对称反射模块。

Under this Engineering Research Equipment Grant, the Optical Sciences Center at the University of Arizona will upgrade a highly stabilized CW dye laser to a titanium sapphire laser. This upgraded laser will be dedicated to research in engineering, specifically lightwave technology. The titanium sapphire laser will be used for several research projects: a) measurement of the linear and nonlinear optical properties of II- V semiconductor crystals grown on our Riber 32P MBE machine, for example, strained-layer InGaAs/GaAs multiple quantum wells, in order to assess their potential for low- energy optical modulators and low- threshold lasers; b) study of spectral hole burning and instabilities in our MBE-grown CW vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; and c) characterization of the nonlinear properties of specific MBE-grown devices such as our InGaAs/GaAs asymmetric reflection modular.