Portable ultrafast blue light sources designed with frequency doubling in KTP and KNbO3

B  Agate; E U  Rafailov; W  Sibbett; S M  Saltiel; K  Koynov; M  Tiihonen; S H  Wang; F  Laurell; P  Battle; T  Fry; T  Roberts; E  Noonan

doi:10.1109/JSTQE.2004.837714

Portable ultrafast blue light sources designed with frequency doubling in KTP and KNbO3

B Agate, E U Rafailov, W Sibbett, S M Saltiel, K Koynov, M Tiihonen, S H Wang, F Laurell, P Battle, T Fry, T Roberts, E Noonan

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Abstract

We demonstrate an effective means of achieving compact, truly portable, and entirely self-contained ultrafast blue light sources. Using a variety of nonlinear media to achieve simple second-harmonic generation of a femtosecond Cr:LiSAF laser, we investigate the relative merits of aperiodically poled bulk and waveguide nonlinear crystals in comparison to periodically poled structures. Such a compact and convenient source of ultrashort laser pulses in the blue spectral region could be of great interest for on-site applications spanning a host of disciplines, such as biomedical imaging, optical micromanipulation, and high-resolution spectroscopy.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1268-1276
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
Volume	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2004.837714
Publication status	Published - Nov 2004

Keywords

diode-pumped lasers
frequency conversion
mode-locked lasers
periodic structures
waveguides
PHASE-MATCHING GRATINGS
WAVE-GUIDE CRYSTAL
CR-LISAF LASERS
2ND-HARMONIC GENERATION
PULSE-COMPRESSION
POTASSIUM NIOBATE
FEMTOSECOND LASER
EFFICIENT
DIODE
COMPACT

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Portable ultrafast blue light sources designed with frequency doubling in KTP and KNbO3

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