Intracavity frequency doubling of Nd:YVO/sub 4/ disk laser with periodically poled KTiOPO/sub 4/

Author

Wang, Shuhui ; Pasiskevicius, Valdas ; Laurell, Fredrik ; Liao, Yifan ; Liu, Jiangchuan ; Miller, R. J. Dwayne

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., R. Inst. of Technol., Stockholm, Sweden

fYear

2000

fDate

7-12 May 2000

Firstpage

16

Abstract

Summary form only given. Intracavity frequency doubling is a standard technique to achieve high-efficiency visible light generation employing cw near-infrared lasers. Periodically poled bulk KTiOPO/sub 4/ (PPKTP) has a number of attractive features, such as, relatively high optical nonlinearities for noncritical interaction, high photorefractive damage threshold, and it can be advantageous for intracavity visible light generation. Here we report on the generation of watt-level power at 532 nm by intracavity frequency doubling of a laser-diode pumped cw Nd:YVO/sub 4/ disk laser using PPKTP.

Keywords

dielectric polarisation; infrared sources; neodymium; optical harmonic generation; optical pumping; solid lasers; 532 nm; KTiOPO/sub 4/; Nd:YVO/sub 4/ disk laser; YVO/sub 4/:Nd; cw near-infrared lasers; high optical nonlinearities; high photorefractive damage threshold; high-efficiency visible light generation; intracavity frequency doubling; intracavity visible light generation; laser-diode pumped cw Nd:YVO/sub 4/ disk laser; noncritical interaction; periodically poled KTiOPO/sub 4/; periodically poled bulk KTiOPO/sub 4/; watt-level power; Coatings; Crystallization; Diodes; Doping; Frequency; Laser modes; Mirrors; Physics; Semiconductor process modeling; Solids;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2000. (CLEO 2000). Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-634-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2000.906671

Filename

906671