Quasi-phase-matched generation of tunable blue light in a quasi-periodic structure |
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Authors: | Xu Ping Li Kun Zhao Gang Zhu Shi-ning Du Yan Ji Shuai-hua Zhu Yong-yuan Ming Nai-ben Luo L Li K F Cheah K W |
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Affiliation: | National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China. |
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Abstract: | We present what is to our knowledge a new approach to generating tunable blue light by cascaded nonlinear frequency conversion in a single LiTaO3 crystal. Simultaneous quasi-phase matching of an optical parametric generation process and a sum-frequency mixing process is achieved by means of structuring the crystal with a quasi-periodic optical superlattice. The spectral (wavelength tuning and bandwidth) and power characteristics of the blue-light generation are studied with a fixed-wavelength 532-nm picosecond laser and a wavelength-tunable nanosecond optical parametric oscillator (OPO) as the pump sources. By tuning the OPO wavelength, we could tune the blue output over approximately 20 nm. Temperature tuning of the blue output at a fixed pump wavelength of 532 nm was limited to approximately 1.5 nm. A maximum blue power of 15 microW was generated at a pump power of 0.5 mW, corresponding to an efficiency of 3%. |
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