Cascaded lens waveguiding for efficient second-harmonic generation in KNbO/sub 3/

Author

Fluck, D. ; Gunter, P.

Author_Institution

Nonlinear Opt. Lab., Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

1996

fDate

2-7 June 1996

Firstpage

271

Lastpage

272

Abstract

Summary form only given. In this contribution, we present a new technique for efficient frequency conversion in cascaded crystals. By using this technique up to 20 mW of coherent diffraction-limited cw 491-nm light was generated by frequency doubling a monolithically integrated master oscillator power amplifier in a cascade of three KNbO/sub 3/ crystals with an overall conversion efficiency of 3.5%/W.

Keywords

optical harmonic generation; optical materials; potassium compounds; solid lasers; waveguide lasers; 20 mW; 491 nm; KNbO/sub 3/; KNbO/sub 3/ crystals; cascaded crystals; cascaded lens waveguiding; coherent diffraction-limited cw nm light; frequency conversion; frequency doubling; monolithically integrated master oscillator power amplifier; overall conversion efficiency; second-harmonic generation; Crystals; Frequency conversion; Lenses; Nonlinear optics; Optical frequency conversion; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pumping; Optimized production technology; Quantum cascade lasers; Quantum dot lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-443-2

Type

conf

Filename

864660