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Blue laser light from infra-red laser diodes

Blue laser light from infra-red laser diodes
Blue laser light from infra-red laser diodes
Despite the breathtaking progress of semiconductor diode laser technology in recent years there is still no such thing as a diode that emits blue light. A great deal of research effort is therefore being put into schemes for efficiently converting the near-infrared output from the best available diodes into green and blue coherent radiation. Recently Bill Kozlovsky and Bill Lenth of the IBM Almaden Research Center, California, USA, reported a result which represents the current high-water mark in this field. In collaboration with scientists at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory they succeeded in generating 41 mW of blue laser light by using a nonlinear crystal to double the frequency of infrared radiation emitted by a GaAlAs diode laser.
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Tropper, Anne
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Tropper, Anne
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Tropper, Anne (1990) Blue laser light from infra-red laser diodes. Physics World, 3, 23.

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Abstract

Despite the breathtaking progress of semiconductor diode laser technology in recent years there is still no such thing as a diode that emits blue light. A great deal of research effort is therefore being put into schemes for efficiently converting the near-infrared output from the best available diodes into green and blue coherent radiation. Recently Bill Kozlovsky and Bill Lenth of the IBM Almaden Research Center, California, USA, reported a result which represents the current high-water mark in this field. In collaboration with scientists at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory they succeeded in generating 41 mW of blue laser light by using a nonlinear crystal to double the frequency of infrared radiation emitted by a GaAlAs diode laser.

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Published date: 1990
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 394383
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/394383
ISSN: 0953-8585
PURE UUID: 3baadf20-384f-4242-a347-57dcfa918d9e

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Last modified: 11 Dec 2021 10:24

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Author: Anne Tropper

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