Portable ultrafast blue light sources designed with frequency doubling in KTP and KNbO(3)

• Published in: IEEE journal of selected topics in quantum electronics Vol. 10; no. 6; pp. 1268 - 1276
• Main Authors: Agate, B, Rafailov, E U, Sibbett, W, Saltiel, S M, Koynov, K, Tiihonen, M, Wang, Shunhua, Laurell, F, Battle, P, Fry, T, Roberts, T, Noonan, E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.11.2004

We demonstrate an effective means of achieving compact, truly portable, and entirely self-contained ultrafast blue light sources. Using a variety of nonlinear media to achieve simple second-harmonic generation of a femtosecond Cr:LiSAF laser, we investigate the relative merits of aperiodically poled...