Self-frequency-doubling ytterbium lasers

Judith M. Dawes; Peter Dekker; Philip Burns; James A. Piper

doi:10.1007/s10043-004-0101-8

Self-frequency-doubling ytterbium lasers

Judith M. Dawes, Peter Dekker, Philip Burns, James A. Piper

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Ytterbium-doped self-frequency-doubling lasers offer high efficiency, tunable, visible and near-infrared, cw and pulsed operation from compact devices. We review the performance of ytterbium-doped yttrium aluminium borate (Yb:YAB) self-frequency-doubling lasers. Because of the detailed dynaMisc of the interaction of the nonlinear pulse shaping process for mode-locking or for Q-switching self-frequency-doubled lasers, we observe pulse lengthening in each process when frequency doubling is optimised, with high average output power. However, for continuous wave operation, the self-frequency doubling process may be optimised to give highly efficient, robust, widely-tunable output in the visible as well as fundamental output in the infrared.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	101-104
Number of pages	4
Journal	Optical Review
Volume	12
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10043-004-0101-8
Publication status	Published - Mar 2005

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