Efficient second-harmonic generation for generating ultrafast blue light in periodically-poled bulk and waveguide potassium titanyl phosphate

Author

Petrov, V. ; Wang, Y. ; Ding, Y.J. ; Zheng, Y. ; Khurgin, J.B. ; Risk, W.P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Bowling Green State Univ., OH, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

10-14 Aug 1998

Firstpage

441

Lastpage

443

Abstract

We report the first results of SHG in short-period periodically-poled KTiOPO₄ (KTP) for efficiently generating blue light using subpicosecond laser pulses. The uniqueness of our results lies in the combination of short-period periodically-poled KTP crystals and an ultrafast pump beam for efficient generation of blue light

Keywords

dielectric polarisation; high-speed optical techniques; light sources; optical harmonic generation; optical pumping; optical waveguides; potassium compounds; titanium compounds; KTiOPO₄; SHG; blue light; second-harmonic generation; short-period periodically-poled KTP crystals; short-period periodically-poled KTiOPO₄; subpicosecond laser pulses; ultrafast blue light generation; ultrafast pump beam; Crystalline materials; Crystals; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Optical pulse generation; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Waveguide lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nonlinear Optics '98: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications Topical Meeting

Conference_Location

Kauai, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4950-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NLO.1998.710350

Filename

710350