Efficiency improvement of diode-laser-based pulsed UV-SHG using a GT interferometer compressor

Author

Uchiyama, Y. ; Yamaguchi, T. ; Tsuchiya, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tokyo Univ., Japan

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

141

Lastpage

142

Abstract

Summary form only given. We have proposed an alternative possibility that spectrally narrowed gain-switched semiconductor laser pulses can be used as fundamental light (FL) to generate quasi-cw UV light and have shown experimentally the improvement of the UV second-harmonic generation (SHG) efficiency. We report successful compression of such pulses from a 690-nm AlGaInP semiconductor laser by a Gires-Tournois (GT) interferometer and the SHG efficiency improvement achieved with it. The method to make the pulses spectrally narrowed is the same as before. The GT interferometer was placed between the laser and the SHG crystal.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; gallium compounds; indium compounds; laser transitions; optical harmonic generation; optical pulse compression; semiconductor lasers; 690 nm; AlGaInP; AlGaInP semiconductor laser; GT interferometer compressor; Gires-Tournois interferometer; SHG crystal; UV SHG efficiency; diode-laser-based pulsed UV-SHG; fundamental light; laser pulse compression; light interferometers; quasi-cw UV light generation; spectrally narrowed; spectrally narrowed gain-switched semiconductor laser pulses; Frequency; Laser tuning; Optical interferometry; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulse shaping; Optimized production technology; Pulse compression methods; Semiconductor diodes; Temperature dependence; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-339-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1998.675972

Filename

675972