Up to 30 mW of broadly tunable CW green-to-orange light, based on sum-frequency mixing of Cr4+ : forsterite and Nd : YVO4 lasers

J L  Mortensen; A  McWilliam; C G  Leburn; P  Tidemand-Lichtenberg; M  Thorhauge; J  Janousek; C T A  Brown; A A  Lagatsky; P  Buchhave; W  Sibbett

doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2005.10.056

Up to 30 mW of broadly tunable CW green-to-orange light, based on sum-frequency mixing of Cr4+ : forsterite and Nd : YVO4 lasers

J L Mortensen, A McWilliam, C G Leburn, P Tidemand-Lichtenberg, M Thorhauge, J Janousek, C T A Brown, A A Lagatsky, P Buchhave, W Sibbett

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Efficient generation of continuous-wave (CW) tunable light in the yellow region is reported. The method is based on sum-frequency mixing of a tunable Cr4+:forsterite laser with a Nd:YVO4 laser. A periodically poled lithium niobate crystal was placed intra-cavity in a Nd:YVO4 laser, and the Cr4+ :forsterite laser was single-passed through the non-linear media. With this setup, it was possible to generate up to 3 mW of yellow light smoothly tunable from 573 to 587 nm. This is the highest output demonstrated to date for a tunable diode pumped solid-state CW laser in this wavelength region. The ways to improve the efficiency further are discussed. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	637-640
Number of pages	4
Journal	Optics Communications
Volume	260
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2005.10.056
Publication status	Published - 15 Apr 2006

Keywords

tunable
yellow
Cr : forsterite
sum-frequency generation
solid state
CR-FORSTERITE
GENERATION

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Mortensen, J. L., McWilliam, A., Leburn, C. G., Tidemand-Lichtenberg, P., Thorhauge, M., Janousek, J., Brown, C. T. A., Lagatsky, A. A., Buchhave, P., & Sibbett, W. (2006). Up to 30 mW of broadly tunable CW green-to-orange light, based on sum-frequency mixing of Cr4+ : forsterite and Nd : YVO4 lasers. Optics Communications, 260(2), 637-640. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2005.10.056

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Up to 30 mW of broadly tunable CW green-to-orange light, based on sum-frequency mixing of Cr4+ : forsterite and Nd : YVO4 lasers

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