All solid-state continuous wave tunable blue light source by intracavity doubling of a diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF laser

Franck Falcoz (1) , François Balembois (1) , Patrick Georges (1) , Alain Brun (1) , Daniel Rytz (2)

1 Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Elsa
2 FEE

We describe a diode-pumped cw Cr31:LiSrAlF6 laser that produces 190-mW cw output at 860 nm. By frequency doubling in a KNbO3 crystal we generate 13 mW of second-harmonic light tunable from 427 to 443 nm.

Domains: Optics [physics.optics]

Franck Falcoz, François Balembois, Patrick Georges, Alain Brun, Daniel Rytz. All solid-state continuous wave tunable blue light source by intracavity doubling of a diode-pumped Cr:LiSAF laser. Optics Letters, 1995, 20 (11), pp.1274-1276. ⟨hal-00761357⟩