Self-Frequency-Doubling Ytterbium Lasers |
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Authors: | Judith M Dawes Peter Dekker Philip Burns James A Piper |
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Institution: | (1) Centre for Lasers and Applications, Department of Physics, Macquarie University, Balaclava Rd, Sydney, 2109, Australia |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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Keywords: | novel lasers frequency conversion ytterbium lasers diode-pumped solid-state lasers visible lasers infrared lasers |
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