Powerful red and blue laser radiation generated by frequency doubling and tripling the output of a mode locked 1342 nm Nd:YVO/sub 4/-laser in pp-KTP

Author

Krennrich, D. ; Wallenstein, R. ; Herrmann, T. ; Henrich, B. ; Nebel, A.

Author_Institution

Fachbereich Phys., Kaiserslautern Univ., Germany

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Firstpage

167

Abstract

Summary from only given. We report on the generation of powerful picosecond laser pulses in the red (671 nm) and blue (447 nm) spectral range by second and third harmonic generation of a mode-locked Nd:YVO/sub 4/-laser operating at 1342 nm. The nonlinear crystals used for both the second and third harmonic are periodically poled quasi-phase-matched KTP-crystals (pp-KTP).

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser transitions; neodymium; optical harmonic generation; optical materials; optical phase matching; potassium compounds; solid lasers; yttrium compounds; 1342 nm; 447 nm; 671 nm; KTiOPO/sub 4/; YVO/sub 4/:Nd; mode-locked Nd:YVO/sub 4/ laser; nonlinear crystals; periodically poled; periodically poled crystals; powerful picosecond laser pulses; quasi-phase-matched; second harmonic generation; spectral range; third harmonic generation; Choppers; Frequency conversion; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Polarization; Power generation; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1033571

Filename

1033571