Generation of 3.5W high efficiency blue-violet laser by intracavity frequency-doubling of an all-solid-state tunable Ti:sapphire laser.
In this paper, we report a high power, high efficiency blue-violet laser obtained by intracavity frequency-doubling of an all-solid-state Q-switched tunable Ti:sapphire laser, which was pumped by a 532 nm intracavity frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser. A beta-BaB2O4 (BBO) crystal was used for frequency-doubling of the Ti:sapphire laser and a V-shape folded three-mirror cavity was optimized to obtain high power high efficiency second harmonic generation (SHG). At an incident pump power of 22 W, the tunable output from 355 nm to 475 nm was achieved, involving the maximum average output of 3.5 W at 400 nm with an optical conversion efficiency of 16% from the 532 nm pump laser to the blue-violet output. The beam quality factor M(2) was measured to be Mx(2)=2.15, My(2)=2.38 for characterizing the tunable blue laser.
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College of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Institute of Laser and Opto-Electronics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China. dingxin@tju.edu.cn
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D000537:Aluminum Oxide; D003116:Color; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D007834:Lasers; D014025:Titanium
D014025:Titanium; D000537:Aluminum Oxide