MINIATURE BLUE-GREEN LASER SOURCE USING SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION

    公开(公告)号:AU626964B2

    公开(公告)日:1992-08-13

    申请号:AU4778690

    申请日:1990-01-08

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: Apparatus and method for producing coherent blue-green-light radiation having a wavelength of essentially 490-500 nm. A diode laser (10), such as a strained-layer InGaAs/GaAs diode laser, provides a 980-1,000 nm beam (12), and a nonlinear crystal (19) of KTP (KTiOPO4) produces coherent radiation (22) by noncritically phase-matched second-harmonic generation (SHG) of said beam. The beam preferably has a wavelength of essentially 994 nm for generating radiation having a wavelength of essentially 497 nm. The crystal is disposed within an optical resonator (18) and the frequency of the laser is locked to that of the resonator. Alternatively, two diode lasers (10,11) are oriented to provide orthogonally polarized beams each with a wavelength of 980-1,000 nm but within essentially 1 nm of each other, and the KTP crystal is oriented with its a and c axes parallel to the orthogonally polarized beams. The KTP crystal may have an associated optical waveguide along which the beam is propagated to enhance SHG efficiency.

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    公开(公告)号:DE68925810T2

    公开(公告)日:1996-09-26

    申请号:DE68925810

    申请日:1989-12-18

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: Apparatus and method for producing coherent blue-green-light radiation having a wavelength of essentially 490-500 nm. A diode laser (10), such as a strained-layer InGaAs/GaAs diode laser, provides a 980-1,000 nm beam (12), and a nonlinear crystal (19) of KTP (KTiOPO4) produces coherent radiation (22) by noncritically phase-matched second-harmonic generation (SHG) of said beam. The beam preferably has a wavelength of essentially 994 nm for generating radiation having a wavelength of essentially 497 nm. The crystal is disposed within an optical resonator (18) and the frequency of the laser is locked to that of the resonator. Alternatively, two diode lasers (10,11) are oriented to provide orthogonally polarized beams each with a wavelength of 980-1,000 nm but within essentially 1 nm of each other, and the KTP crystal is oriented with its a and c axes parallel to the orthogonally polarized beams. The KTP crystal may have an associated optical waveguide along which the beam is propagated to enhance SHG efficiency.

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    公开(公告)号:DE69109219D1

    公开(公告)日:1995-06-01

    申请号:DE69109219

    申请日:1991-09-05

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A first section of a waveguide channel 20 is made of a nonlinear crystal material. A second section of the waveguide has a plurality of diverging channels 22. Each of the diverging channels is of a width which supports one of the modes of second harmonic generated light from the first section. First order mode second harmonic light is obtained at the end of one of the diverging channels.

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    公开(公告)号:DE69104808T2

    公开(公告)日:1995-04-27

    申请号:DE69104808

    申请日:1991-11-04

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A laser diode with a low reflectivity output facet provides infrared light to a nonlinear crystal resonator such that a portion of the infrared light is converted to blue light. A mirror is located on the opposite side of the nonlinear crystal resonator from the laser. The mirror allows the blue light to pass, but reflects the infrared light exiting the resonator back through the resonator and into the laser diode. The laser diode is thereby locked at the resonance frequency of the nonlinear crystal resonator.

    Apparatus and method for producing blue-green light radiation

    公开(公告)号:HK203896A

    公开(公告)日:1996-11-15

    申请号:HK203896

    申请日:1996-11-07

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: Apparatus and method for producing coherent blue-green-light radiation having a wavelength of essentially 490-500 nm. A diode laser (10), such as a strained-layer InGaAs/GaAs diode laser, provides a 980-1,000 nm beam (12), and a nonlinear crystal (19) of KTP (KTiOPO4) produces coherent radiation (22) by noncritically phase-matched second-harmonic generation (SHG) of said beam. The beam preferably has a wavelength of essentially 994 nm for generating radiation having a wavelength of essentially 497 nm. The crystal is disposed within an optical resonator (18) and the frequency of the laser is locked to that of the resonator. Alternatively, two diode lasers (10,11) are oriented to provide orthogonally polarized beams each with a wavelength of 980-1,000 nm but within essentially 1 nm of each other, and the KTP crystal is oriented with its a and c axes parallel to the orthogonally polarized beams. The KTP crystal may have an associated optical waveguide along which the beam is propagated to enhance SHG efficiency.

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    公开(公告)号:DE69109219T2

    公开(公告)日:1995-11-02

    申请号:DE69109219

    申请日:1991-09-05

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A first section of a waveguide channel 20 is made of a nonlinear crystal material. A second section of the waveguide has a plurality of diverging channels 22. Each of the diverging channels is of a width which supports one of the modes of second harmonic generated light from the first section. First order mode second harmonic light is obtained at the end of one of the diverging channels.

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    发明专利
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    公开(公告)号:DE68925810D1

    公开(公告)日:1996-04-04

    申请号:DE68925810

    申请日:1989-12-18

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: Apparatus and method for producing coherent blue-green-light radiation having a wavelength of essentially 490-500 nm. A diode laser (10), such as a strained-layer InGaAs/GaAs diode laser, provides a 980-1,000 nm beam (12), and a nonlinear crystal (19) of KTP (KTiOPO4) produces coherent radiation (22) by noncritically phase-matched second-harmonic generation (SHG) of said beam. The beam preferably has a wavelength of essentially 994 nm for generating radiation having a wavelength of essentially 497 nm. The crystal is disposed within an optical resonator (18) and the frequency of the laser is locked to that of the resonator. Alternatively, two diode lasers (10,11) are oriented to provide orthogonally polarized beams each with a wavelength of 980-1,000 nm but within essentially 1 nm of each other, and the KTP crystal is oriented with its a and c axes parallel to the orthogonally polarized beams. The KTP crystal may have an associated optical waveguide along which the beam is propagated to enhance SHG efficiency.

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    发明专利
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    公开(公告)号:DE69104808D1

    公开(公告)日:1994-12-01

    申请号:DE69104808

    申请日:1991-11-04

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A laser diode with a low reflectivity output facet provides infrared light to a nonlinear crystal resonator such that a portion of the infrared light is converted to blue light. A mirror is located on the opposite side of the nonlinear crystal resonator from the laser. The mirror allows the blue light to pass, but reflects the infrared light exiting the resonator back through the resonator and into the laser diode. The laser diode is thereby locked at the resonance frequency of the nonlinear crystal resonator.

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