Stable, high-power, Yb-fiber-based, picosecond ultraviolet generation at 355 nm using BiB3O6
We report a stable, high-power, high-repetition-rate, picosecond ultraviolet (UV) source at 355 nm based on singlepass sum-frequency generation of a mode-locked Yb-fiber laser at 1064 nm in the nonlinear crystal BiB3O6. By performing single-pass second-harmonic generation (SHG) in a 30-mm-long LiB3O...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/26936 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/26936 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Optics Nonlinear optics Òptica no lineal Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telecomunicació òptica::Fotònica |
| Sumario: | We report a stable, high-power, high-repetition-rate, picosecond ultraviolet (UV) source at 355 nm based on singlepass sum-frequency generation of a mode-locked Yb-fiber laser at 1064 nm in the nonlinear crystal BiB3O6. By performing single-pass second-harmonic generation (SHG) in a 30-mm-long LiB3O5 crystal, up to 9.1 W of average green power at 532 nm is obtained at a single-pass SHG efficiency of 54%. The generated green pulses have a duration of 16.2 ps at a repetition rate of 79.5 MHz, with a passive power stability better than 0.5% rms and a pointing stability <12 μrad over 1 h, in high beam quality. The green radiation is then sum-frequency-mixed with the fundamental in a 10-mm-long BiB3O6 crystal, providing as much as 1.2 W of average UV power, at an infrared-to-UV conversion efficiency of 7.2%, with a passive power stability better than 0.4% rms over 3 h and a pointing stability <45 μrad over 1 h, in TEM00 spatial profile. © 2015 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (190.436 |
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