Up to 30 mW of broadly tunable CW green-to-orange light, based on sum-frequency mixing of Cr4+:forsterite and Nd:YVO4 lasers

Jesper Liltorp Mortensen; Allan McWilliam; Christopher G. Leburn; Peter Tidemand-Lichtenberg; Morten Thorhauge; Jiri Janousek; Christian T.A. Brown; Alexander A. Lagatsky; Preben Buchhave; Wilson Sibbett

doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2005.10.056

Up to 30 mW of broadly tunable CW green-to-orange light, based on sum-frequency mixing of Cr4+:forsterite and Nd:YVO4 lasers

Jesper Liltorp Mortensen
, Allan McWilliam
, Christopher G. Leburn
, Peter Tidemand-Lichtenberg
, Morten Thorhauge
, Jiri Janousek
, Christian T.A. Brown
, Alexander A. Lagatsky
, Preben Buchhave
, Wilson Sibbett

Department of Physics

University of St Andrews

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Journal	Optics Communications
Volume	260
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	637-640
ISSN	0030-4018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2005.10.056
Publication status	Published - 2006

Keywords

Tunable
Yellow
Cr:forsterite
Sum-frequency generation
Solid state

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Mortensen, J. L., McWilliam, A., G. Leburn, C., Tidemand-Lichtenberg, P., Thorhauge, M., Janousek, J., T.A. Brown, C., A. Lagatsky, A., Buchhave, P., & Sibbett, W. (2006). Up to 30 mW of broadly tunable CW green-to-orange light, based on sum-frequency mixing of Cr4+:forsterite and Nd:YVO4 lasers. Optics Communications, 260(2), 637-640. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2005.10.056

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Up to 30 mW of broadly tunable CW green-to-orange light, based on sum-frequency mixing of Cr4+:forsterite and Nd:YVO4 lasers

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