Tandem, deep UV generation with seeded ytterbium fiber sources

Author

Champert, P.A. ; Solodyankin, M.A. ; Popov, S.V. ; Taylor, J.R.

Author_Institution

Femtosecond Opt. Group, Imperial Coll., UK

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Firstpage

165

Abstract

Summary from only given. We demonstrate the principle, and report on generation of 80 mW of 265 nm UV light by using a tandem second harmonic generation in periodically poled KTiOPO/sub 4/ and bulk BaB/sub 2/O/sub 4/ (BBO). Compared to other materials for UV generation, BBO offers high-optical damage resistance and relatively higher second order nonlinearity. A single-mode ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier pumping source was employed.

Keywords

barium compounds; optical fibre amplifiers; optical harmonic generation; optical materials; optical pumping; potassium compounds; ultraviolet sources; ytterbium; 265 nm; 80 mW; BaB/sub 2/O/sub 4/; KTiOPO/sub 4/; UV light generation; high-optical damage resistance; optical fibre amplifiers; second order nonlinearity; single-mode ytterbium-doped fiber amplifier; tandem second harmonic generation; Crystals; Laser excitation; Laser tuning; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulses; Pump lasers; Solid lasers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Tunable circuits and devices; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1033569

Filename

1033569