Efficient doubling of femtosecond pulses in aperiodically and periodically poled KTP crystals

Author

Lagatsky, A.A. ; Brown, C.T.A. ; Sibbett, W. ; Holmgren, S.J. ; Canalias, C. ; Pasiskevicius, Valdas ; Laurell, Fredrik

Author_Institution

Sch. of Phys. & Astron., Univ. of St. Andrews, St. Andrews

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Efficient doubling of femtosecond pulses from a mode-locked Yb:KYW laser in periodically poled and aperiodically poled KTP is reported. Second-harmonic conversion efficiencies of up to 58% have been achieved and 354-fs pulses generated at 522 nm.

Keywords

optical harmonic generation; optical materials; optical pulse generation; potassium compounds; KTP; aperiodically poled KTP crystals; efficiency 58 percent; femtosecond pulses doubling; mode-locked laser; periodically poled KTP crystals; pulse generation; second-harmonic conversion efficiencies; time 354 fs; wavelength 522 nm; Crystals; Frequency conversion; Laser mode locking; Nonlinear optics; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Physics; Ultrafast electronics; Ultrafast optics; (140.4050) Mode-locked lasers; (140.7300) Visible lasers; (190.4400) Nonlinear optics, materials;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628092

Filename

4628092