31%-efficient blue second-harmonic generation in a periodically poled MgO:LiNbO3 waveguide by frequency doubling of an AlGaAs laser diode.
We present a method of controlling the shape of the domain-inverted structure in an off-cut MgO:LiNbO(3) crystal by utilizing a two-dimensional high-voltage application. With this technique a periodically domain-inverted structure with a period of 3.2 microm and a thickness of 2.0 microm was fabricated over a 10-mm interaction length. This structure has made possible sufficient overlaps between propagation modes and domain inversion in the waveguide. Using this structure, we demonstrated cw blue second-harmonic generation of 17.3 mW of power at a wavelength of 426 nm with single-pass 55-mW cw AlGaAs laser diode input, which corresponded to 31% power-conversion efficiency.
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Optical Disk Systems Development Center, Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, Ltd., 3-1-1 Yagumo-Nakamachi, Moriguchi, Osaka 570-8501, Japan.
Mizuuchi
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Kitaoka
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Yamamoto
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