Compact and highly efficient blue light sources: bulk and waveguide approaches to the single pass frequency doubling of femtosecond Cr:LiSAF lasrs

Agate, B. and Kemp, A. and Birkin, D.J.L. and Rafailov, E.U. and Brown, C.T.A. and Sibbett, W. and Battle, P. and Fry, T. and Mohatt, D. (2002) Compact and highly efficient blue light sources: bulk and waveguide approaches to the single pass frequency doubling of femtosecond Cr:LiSAF lasrs. In: Proceedings of the 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE: Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2002 (LEOS 2002). IEEE Computer Society, pp. 438-439. ISBN 0-7803-7500-9

Abstract

We present highly-efficient femtosecond blue light generation from a very simple, compact and potentially robust source. Complementary results from a periodically-poled waveguide suggest that this technique may allow the flexibility of quasi-phasematching in both the spectral and temporal domains to be exploited using compact and efficient femtosecond lasers.

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