Tunable watt-level blue-green vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers by intracavity frequency doubling

Li Fan, Ta Chen Hsu, Mahmoud Fallahi, James T. Murray, Robert Bedford, Yushi Kaneda, Jörg Hader, Aramais R. Zakharian, Jerome V. Moloney, Stephan W. Koch, Wolfgang Stolz

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Abstract

We report, on the development and the demonstration of a tunable, watt-level, blue-green, linearly polarized vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers operating around 488 nm by intracavity second-harmonic generation. By using lithium triborate crystal, we have achieved over 1.3 W continuous wave blue-green power at 488 nm with a 5 nm tunability.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number251117
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume88
Issue number25
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 19 2006

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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