Efficient 2nd and 4th harmonic generation of a single-frequency, continuous-wave fiber amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1546-1551

  Südmeyer, Thomas ^a,b   Imai, Yutaka ^a   Masuda, Hisashi ^a   Eguchi, Naoya ^a   Saito, Masaki ^a   Kubota, Shigeo ^a,c  

^a SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY; GROWTH RATE; HARMONIC GENERATION; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE MATCHING;

CONTINUOUS-WAVE FIBER AMPLIFIER; EXTERNAL CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HIGH DAMAGE THRESHOLD;

FIBER AMPLIFIERS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AMPLIFIERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHTING; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 39049156254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.001546     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. M. Takeda, M. Furuki, H. Yamatsu, T. Kashiwagi, Y. Aki, A. Suzuki, K. Kondo, M. Oka, and S. Kubota, "Deep UV Mastering Using an All-Solid-State 266 nm Laser for an over 20 GBytes/Layer Capacity Disk," Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 38, 1837 (1998).
2. N. Eguchi, M. Oka, Y. Imai, M. Saito, and S. Kubota, "A new deep-UV microscope," in Optical Engineering for Sensing and Nanotechnology (ICOSN '99), 3740 (SPIE Proceedings), 394, 1999.
3. M. Oka, L. Y. Liu, W. Wiechmann, N. Eguchi, and S. Kubota, "All solid-state continuous-wave frequency-quadrupled Nd:YAG laser," IEEE J. Sel. Top. in Quantum Electron. 1, 859 (1995).
4. 10 crystal," Opt. Lett. 29, 92 (2004).
5. T. Okamoto, K. Tatsuki, and S. Kubota, Sony Corporation, US Patent No. 6, 248, 167 B1 (2001).
6. T. J. Kane, and R. L. Byer, "Monolithic, unidirectional single-mode Nd:YAG ring laser," Opt. Lett. 10, 65 (1985).
7. I. Zawischa, K. Plamann, C. Fallnich, H. Welling, H. Zellmer, and A. Tunnermann, "All-solid-state neodymium-based single-frequency master-oscillator fiber power-amplifier system emitting 5.5 W of radiation at. 1064 nm," Opt. Lett. 24, 469 (1999).
8. A. Liem, J. Limpert, H. Zellmer, and A. Tunnermann, "100-W single-frequency master-oscillator fiber power amplifier," Opt. Lett. 28, 1537 (2003).
9. Y. Jeong, J. Nilsson, J. K. Sahu, D. B. S. Soh, C. Alegria, P. Dupriez, C. A. Codemard, D. N. Payne, R. Horley, L. M. B. Hickey, L. Wanzcyk, C. E. Chryssou, J. A. Alvarez-Chavez, and P. W. Turner, "Single-frequency, single-mode, plane-polarized ytterbium-doped fiber master oscillator power amplifier source with 264 W of output power," Opt. Lett. 30, 459 (2005).
10. 3 external, resonant cavities," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 24, 913 (1988).
11. Z. Y. Ou, S. F. Pereira, E. S. Polzik, and H. J. Kimble, "85% efficiency for cw frequency doubling from 1.08 to 0.54 nin," Opt. Lett. 17, 640 (1992).
12. 3 resonator," Opt. Lett. 19, 1325 (1994).
13. K. Schneider, S. Schiller, J. Mlýnek, M. Bode, and I. Freitag, " 1.1-W single-frequency 532-n.m radiation by second-harmonic generation of a minature Nd:YAG ring laser," Opt. Lett. 21, 1999 (1996).
14. R. W. P. Drever, J. L. Hall, F. V. Kowalski, J. Hough, G. M. Ford, A. J. Munley, and H. Ward, "Laser phase and frequency stabilization using an optical resonator," Appl. Phys. B 31, 97 (1983).