Compact and highly efficient ultrafast blue light sources: bulk and waveguide approaches to the single pass frequency doubling of femtosecond Cr:LiSAF lasers

Author

Agate, B. ; Kemp, Andreas J. ; Birkin, D.J.L. ; Rafailov, E.U. ; Brown, C.T.A. ; Sibbett, W.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

10-14 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

438

Abstract

We present highly-efficient femtosecond blue light generation from a very simple, compact and potentially robust source. Complementary results from a periodically-poled waveguide suggest that this technique may allow the flexibility of quasi-phasematching in both the spectral and temporal domains to be exploited using compact and efficient femtosecond lasers.

Keywords

chromium; high-speed optical techniques; light sources; lithium compounds; optical harmonic generation; optical phase matching; optical waveguides; solid lasers; strontium compounds; LiSrAlF₆:Cr; bulk approach; compact highly efficient ultrafast blue light sources; femtosecond Cr:LiSAF lasers; femtosecond lasers; periodically-poled waveguide; quasi-phasematching; robust source; single pass frequency doubling; spectral domain; temporal domain; waveguide approach; Frequency; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Light sources; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical waveguides; Pump lasers; Ultrafast optics; Waveguide lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2002. LEOS 2002. The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7500-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2002.1159367

Filename

1159367