A continuous-wave laser with wavelength-selectable output spanning green-yellow-red

Author

Lee, A.J. ; Spence, D.J. ; Piper, J.A. ; Pask, H.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Macquarie Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2011

fDate

22-26 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

In this work, we report a CW crystalline Raman laser which generates cascaded first and second-Stokes emission wavelengths (1173 nm and 1308 nm respectively) from an Nd:GdVO₄ self-Raman laser, and we apply intracavity second harmonic generation/sum frequency generation (SHG/SFG) using LBO to obtain wavelength-selectable output at 532 nm, 559 nm, 586.5 nm and 620 nm. We will discuss how the various output powers are presently limited by the competition between stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) and SHG/SFG processes within the resonator.

Keywords

Raman lasers; gadolinium compounds; laser cavity resonators; neodymium; optical harmonic generation; solid lasers; stimulated Raman scattering; CW crystalline Raman laser; GdVO₄:Nd; LBO; LiB₃O₅; SFG; SHG; continuous-wave laser; first-Stokes emission wavelength; intracavity second harmonic generation; laser cavity resonators; second-Stokes emission wavelength; self-Raman laser; stimulated Raman scattering; sum frequency generation; wavelength 1173 nm; wavelength 1308 mm; wavelength-selectable output; Photonics; Pump lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0533-5

Electronic_ISBN

Pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942455

Filename

5942455