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An antireflection-coated broad-area laser diode is frequency stabilized in a compact unstable external cavity that was designed off-axis for transversal mode selection. The external cavity laser yielded up to 1 W near-diffraction-limited and tunable light centered around a wavelength of 970 nm. This light was frequency doubled by the use of periodically poled magnesium doped lithium niobate in a single-pass setup. With a 4-cm-long bulk crystal 57.5 mW of blue light could be generated out of 850 mW of infrared light resulting in a conversion efficiency of 6.7%. By using a 1.2-cm waveguide crystal it was possible to couple up to 64% of the infrared light into a 3.5 μm×5 μm channel and 142 mW of blue light at 488 nm could be obtained. An internal conversion efficiency of 44.1% and a wall-plug efficiency of 5.9% were achieved. Furthermore, the blue light was tunable over more than 5 nm.
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Jechow, A., Menzel, R. Efficient blue light generation by frequency doubling of a broad-area diode laser in a compact external cavity. Appl. Phys. B 89, 507–511 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-007-2878-1
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