Diode pumping of a blue (473 nm) Nd:YAG/KNbO/sub 3/ microchip laser

Author

Matthews, D.G. ; Mackinnon, N. ; Conroy, Richard S. ; Sinclair, B.D.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

1996

fDate

2-7 June 1996

Firstpage

174

Lastpage

175

Abstract

Summary form only given. All-solid-state compact blue and green lasers are required for low-power applications in the medical and reprographics industries. Our group recently reported 13 mW of green and 1 mW of blue radiation generated from diode-pumped composite-material microchip devices. In addition Zarrabi et al. generated 15 mW of blue radiation from a Ti:sapphire laser-pumped Nd:YALO/KNbO/sub 3/ microchip. We report here on a diode-array-pumped Nd:YAG/KNbO/sub 3/ blue microchip laser generating over 25 mW and 5 mW of 473 nm radiation using a 1.2 W and 0.5 W diode array respectively.

Keywords

neodymium; optical pumping; potassium compounds; solid lasers; 25 mW; 473 nm; 5 mW; YAG:Nd-KNbO/sub 3/; YAl5O12:Nd-KNbO3; all-solid-state laser; blue Nd:YAG/KNbO/sub 3/ microchip laser; composite material device; diode array pumping; low-power applications; Diodes; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Frequency; Laser excitation; Laser feedback; Laser tuning; Microchip lasers; Neodymium; Pump lasers; Solid lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-443-2

Type

conf

Filename

864526