Portable ultrafast blue light sources designed with frequency doubling in KTP and KNbO3

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1268-1276

  Agate, Ben ^a   Rafailov, Edik U ^a   Sibbett, Wilson ^a   Saltiel, Solomon M ^b   Koynov, Kaloian ^c   Tiihonen, Mikael ^d   Wang, Shunhua ^d   Laurell, Fredrik ^d   Battle, Philip ^e   Fry, Tim ^e   Roberts, Tony ^e   Noonan, Elizabeth ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e AdvR Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

Diode pumped lasers; Frequency conversion; Mode locked lasers; Periodic structures; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; HARMONIC GENERATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

DIODE-PUMPED LASERS; FREQUENCY CONVERSION; MODE-LOCKED LASERS; PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

LIGHT SOURCES;

EID: 13844297925     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2004.837714     Document Type: Article

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