32% efficient, 9.6 W, continuous-wave, Yb-fiber-laser-pumped single-pass second-harmonic-generation in MgO:sPPLT

Author

Das, Ritwick ; Kumar, S. Chaitanya ; Samanta, G.K. ; Ebrahim-Zadeh, Majid

Author_Institution

ICFO-Inst. de Cienc. Fotoniques, Barcelona, Spain

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

We present simple single-pass SHG of a CW ytterbium (Yb) fiber laser in MgO:sPPLT, providing a single-frequency CW power of as much as 9.64 W at 532 nm with a conversion efficiency of 32.7%. The experimental set-up consists of CW single-frequency Yb fiber laser at 1064 nm, which delivers an output power of 30 W in a linearly polarized beam of diameter of 3.0 mm, M ² factor <1.01 and instantaneous linewidth of 12.5 MHz.

Keywords

laser beams; lithium compounds; magnesium compounds; optical harmonic generation; optical pumping; solid lasers; ytterbium; LiTaO₃:MgO; efficiency 32 percent; fiber-laser-pumping; linearly polarized beam; optical conversion efficiency; power 9.6 W; single-frequency CW power; single-pass second-harmonic-generation; wavelength 1064 nm; wavelength 532 nm; Costs; Fiber lasers; Frequency conversion; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Optical fiber polarization; Power generation; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Thermal stability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5196576

Filename

5196576