DocumentCode
421990
Title
Portable ultrafast blue light sources
Author
Agate, B. ; Rafailov, E.U. ; Sibbett, W. ; Saltiel, S.M. ; Koynov, K. ; Tihonen, M. ; Wang, S. ; Laurell, F. ; Battle, P. ; Fry, T. ; Roberts, T. ; Noonan, E.
Author_Institution
Sch. of Phys. & Astron., Saint Andrews Univ., UK
Volume
1
fYear
2004
fDate
16-21 May 2004
Abstract
An effective means of achieving a portable, ultrafast blue-light source using a variety of nonlinear media is demonstrated. We investigate the relative merits of aperiodically-poled bulk and waveguide nonlinear crystals in comparison to periodically-poled structures.
Keywords
high-speed optical techniques; light sources; nonlinear media; nonlinear optics; optical harmonic generation; optical materials; optical waveguides; portable instruments; aperiodically-poled bulk nonlinear crystals; periodically-poled structures; portable ultrafast blue light sources; waveguide nonlinear crystals;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN
1-55752-777-6
Type
conf
Filename
1361454
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