Blue-light laser source by sum-frequency mixing in Nd : YAl3(BO3)(4)

Citation
D. Jaque et al., Blue-light laser source by sum-frequency mixing in Nd : YAl3(BO3)(4), APPL PHYS L, 73(25), 1998, pp. 3659-3661
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science
Journal title
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
ISSN journal
00036951 → ACNP
Volume
73
Issue
25
Year of publication
1998
Pages
3659 - 3661
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6951(199812)73:25<3659:BLSBSM>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
Sum-frequency mixing in neodymium-doped YAl3(BO3)(4) of its fundamental las er Line at 1062 nm and the pump light from a tunable Ti:sapphire laser has been used to generate blue radiation from 435 to 465 nm in an end-pumped co nfiguration. In nonoptimal preliminary experiments 22 mu W at 458 nm was ob tained out of 200 mW absorbed power at 807 nm. Nd:YAB, therefore, emerges a s a promising laser material for diode-pumped solid-state lasers in the blu e spectral region. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics. [S0003-6951(98)0 0446-X].