Orange-to-red tunable picosecond pulses by frequency doubling in a diode-pumped PPKTP waveguide

Opt Lett. 2013 Aug 1;38(15):2835-7. doi: 10.1364/OL.38.002835.

Abstract

A compact picosecond all-room-temperature orange-to-red tunable laser source in the spectral region between 600 and 627 nm is demonstrated. The tunable radiation is obtained by second-harmonic generation in a periodically poled potassium titanyl phosphate (PPKTP) multimode waveguide using a tunable quantum-dot external-cavity mode-locked laser. The maximum second-harmonic output peak power of 3.91 mW at 613 nm is achieved for 85.94 mW of launched pump peak power at 1226 nm, resulting in conversion efficiency of 4.55%.