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- Title
- Self-frequency-doubling ytterbium lasers
- Related
- Optical review, Vol. 12, Issue 2, p.101-104
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10043-004-0101-8
- Publisher
- Springer Verlag
- Date
- 2005
- Author/Creator
- Dawes, Judith M
- Author/Creator
- Dekker, Peter
- Author/Creator
- Burns, Phillip
- Author/Creator
- Piper, James A
- Description
- 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 dynamics 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.
- Description
- 4 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- novel lasers
- Subject Keyword
- frequency conversion
- Subject Keyword
- ytterbium lasers
- Subject Keyword
- diode-pumped solid-state lasers
- Subject Keyword
- visible lasers
- Subject Keyword
- infrared lasers
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Physics
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Centre for Lasers and Applications
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/30062
- Identifier
- ISSN:1349-9432
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2005003011
- Language
- eng
- Reviewed
