Solid-state blue laser by nonlinear frequency conversion of 1.338-µm Nd:YAG laser radiation

Author

Ershkov, M.N. ; Gavrilov, Alexey V. ; Solokhin, S.A. ; Smetanin, S.N. ; Schukina, A.O. ; Fedin, A.V.

Author_Institution

V.A. Degtyarev Kovrov State Technol. Acad., Kovrov, Russia

fYear

2014

fDate

June 30 2014-July 4 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Solid-state blue-laser generation by nonlinear frequency conversion of the 1.338-μm Nd:YAG laser MOPA system is experimentally investigated. The 0.446-μm blue radiation is obtained by frequency-tripling technique as the frequency doubling (0.669 μm) with the sum-frequency oscillation (1.338 μm + 0.669 μm). The blue laser pulse output energy of 2 mJ with 20-ns duration and 2-% conversion efficiency is achieved allowing for laser power scaling.

Keywords

neodymium; optical harmonic generation; optical parametric amplifiers; solid lasers; YAG:Nd; energy 2 mJ; frequency doubling technique; frequency-tripling technique; neodymium:YAG laser MOPA system; nonlinear frequency conversion; solid-state blue-laser generation; sum-frequency oscillation; time 20 ns; wavelength 0.446 mum; wavelength 0.669 mum; wavelength 1.338 mum; Crystals; Frequency conversion; Laser applications; Oscillators; Nd:YAG-laser; blue radiation; sum-frequency oscillation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Laser Optics, 2014 International Conference

Conference_Location

Saint Petersburg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3884-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LO.2014.6886246

Filename

6886246