TY - JOUR
T1 - Up to 30 mW of broadly tunable CW green-to-orange light, based on sum-frequency mixing of Cr4+:forsterite and Nd:YVO4 lasers
AU - Mortensen, Jesper Liltorp
AU - McWilliam, Allan
AU - G. Leburn, Christopher
AU - Tidemand-Lichtenberg, Peter
AU - Thorhauge, Morten
AU - Janousek, Jiri
AU - T.A. Brown, Christian
AU - A. Lagatsky, Alexander
AU - Buchhave, Preben
AU - Sibbett, Wilson
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Efficient generation of continuous-wave (CW) tunable light in the yellow region is reported. The method is based on sum-frequency mixing of a tunable Cr4+:forsterite laser with a Nd:YVO4 laser. A periodically poled lithium niobate crystal was placed intra-cavity in a Nd:YVO4 laser, and the Cr4+:forsterite laser was single-passed through the non-linear media. With this setup, it was possible to generate up to 3 mW of yellow light smoothly tunable from 573 to 587 nm. This is the highest output demonstrated to date for a tunable diode pumped solid-state CW laser in this wavelength region. The ways to improve the efficiency further are discussed.
AB - Efficient generation of continuous-wave (CW) tunable light in the yellow region is reported. The method is based on sum-frequency mixing of a tunable Cr4+:forsterite laser with a Nd:YVO4 laser. A periodically poled lithium niobate crystal was placed intra-cavity in a Nd:YVO4 laser, and the Cr4+:forsterite laser was single-passed through the non-linear media. With this setup, it was possible to generate up to 3 mW of yellow light smoothly tunable from 573 to 587 nm. This is the highest output demonstrated to date for a tunable diode pumped solid-state CW laser in this wavelength region. The ways to improve the efficiency further are discussed.
KW - Tunable
KW - Yellow
KW - Cr:forsterite
KW - Sum-frequency generation
KW - Solid state
U2 - 10.1016/j.optcom.2005.10.056
DO - 10.1016/j.optcom.2005.10.056
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0030-4018
VL - 260
SP - 637
EP - 640
JO - Optics Communications
JF - Optics Communications
IS - 2
ER -