High-resolution, near-diffraction-limited tunable solid-state visible light source using sum-frequency mixing

Author

Page, R.H. ; Beach, R.J. ; Ebbers, C.A. ; Wilcox, R.B. ; Payne, S.A. ; Krupke, W.F. ; Mitchell, S.C. ; Drobshoff, A.D. ; Browning, D.F.

Author_Institution

Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., CA, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

7-12 May 2000

Firstpage

17

Abstract

Summary form only given. Our first cladding-pumped fiber amplifier (CPFA) was designed around double-clad Yb:silica fiber from Polaroid and a 10 Watt semiconductor diode laser P6 pump diode array and produced over 2 Watt output power at 1064 nm. This master-oscillator-power-amplifier architecture provided high power and narrow linewidth simultaneously.

Keywords

laser transitions; laser tuning; light sources; optical fibre amplifiers; optical frequency conversion; optical pumping; ytterbium; 10 W; 1064 nm; 2 W; cladding-pumped fiber amplifier; double-clad Yb:silica fiber; high power; high-resolution near-diffraction-limited tunable solid-state visible light source; master-oscillator-power-amplifier architecture; narrow linewidth s; semiconductor diode laser P6 pump diode array; sum-frequency mixing; Fiber lasers; Optical design; Power amplifiers; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Semiconductor diodes; Semiconductor laser arrays; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Solid state circuits; Tunable circuits and devices;

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.2000.906672

Filename

906672