Low-cost and compact blue/green lasers are desired for applications such as micromachining, laser display, underwater communications, high-density optical data storage, and medical diagnostics recently. Therefore various type of blue and green lasers have been studied, especially for intracavity frequency doubling of the diode-pumped solid-state laser, which can generate high blue/green powers with long lifetime.
Unlike the green laser, which is originated from a four-level laser, the blue laser belongs to a quasi-three-level system, so it is more difficult to develop the blue laser source. The purpose of this experiment is to develop a high power and high efficiency blue laser with simple structure so that it can easily be commercialized. Furthermore, it is a very cost-effective approach to develop such solid-state lasers, if the laser output characteristics can be estimated precisely using software simulation. We used an optics software GLAD to model our four-level and quasi-three-level Nd:YAG laser systems.
In experiment, we developed a blue laser system with a cavity length of 4 mm and with 71.7 mW of blue output power. Besides, we have succeeded in using GLAD to model a Nd:YAG plane-parallel laser cavity, which has an optical conversion efficiency of 68%. Finally, we designed an effective lens duct with a coupling efficiency up to 80%, even if there is no AR coating on lens duct¡¦s input or output facets.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0709102-014237 |
| Date | 09 July 2002 |
| Creators | Kuo, Chia-Chang |
| Contributors | Sheng-Lung Huang, Lung-Han Peng, Fu-Jen Kao |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0709102-014237 |
| Rights | off_campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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