All-solid-state tunable ultraviolet Ce activated fluoride laser systems directly pumped by the fourth and fifth harmonic of Nd:YAG lasers

Author

Liu, Zhenlin ; Ohtake, Hideyuki ; Sarukura, Nobuhiko ; Dubinskii, Mark A. ; Abdulsabirov, Radvil Yu ; Korableva, Stella L.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Molecular Sci., Okazaki, Japan

fYear

1998

fDate

10-14 Aug 1998

Firstpage

343

Lastpage

345

Abstract

We have demonstrated the direct generation, efficient amplification, and sum frequency generation (SFG) of tunable UV short pulses from the all-solid-state Ce activated Ce:LiCaAlF₆ laser system pumped by Q-switched Nd:YAG lasers. These approach will open up new possibility of ultrashort pulse lasers in ultraviolet region

Keywords

Q-switching; aluminium compounds; calcium compounds; cerium; high-speed optical techniques; laser tuning; lithium compounds; optical frequency conversion; optical pumping; solid lasers; LiCaAlF₆:Ce; Nd:YAG lasers; Q-switched Nd:YAG lasers; UV ultrashort pulse lasers; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; all-solid-state Ce activated Ce:LiCaAlF₆ laser system; all-solid-state tunable ultraviolet Ce activated fluoride laser systems; direct generation; directly pumped; efficient amplification; fifth harmonic; fourth harmonic; laser pumping; sum frequency generation; tunable UV short pulses; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Laser radar; Laser tuning; Optical amplifiers; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Solid lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nonlinear Optics '98: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications Topical Meeting

Conference_Location

Kauai, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4950-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NLO.1998.710304

Filename

710304