Title :
Portable ultrafast blue light sources
Author :
Agate, B. ; Rafailov, E.U. ; Sibbett, W. ; Saltiel, S.M. ; Koynov, K. ; Tihonen, M. ; Wang, S. ; Laurell, F. ; Battle, P. ; Fry, T. ; Roberts, T. ; Noonan, E.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Phys. & Astron., Saint Andrews Univ., UK
Abstract :
An effective means of achieving a portable, ultrafast blue-light source using a variety of nonlinear media is demonstrated. We investigate the relative merits of aperiodically-poled bulk and waveguide nonlinear crystals in comparison to periodically-poled structures.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; light sources; nonlinear media; nonlinear optics; optical harmonic generation; optical materials; optical waveguides; portable instruments; aperiodically-poled bulk nonlinear crystals; periodically-poled structures; portable ultrafast blue light sources; waveguide nonlinear crystals;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
