Integrated titanium:sapphire laser

The Ti:Sa laser, a workhorse of any optics laboratory, is typically a bench-top system. A hybrid integration approach now enables a low-threshold photonic-circuit-integrated Ti:Sa laser the size of a fingernail.

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The Ti:Sa laser, widely used in optics laboratories, is usually a bench-top system. However, a novel hybrid integration technique now allows for the development of a miniaturized Ti:Sa laser integrated with a low-threshold photonic circuit, comparable in size to a fingernail.