73 nm wavelength tuning from a frequency-doubled quantum-dot laser in PPKTP waveguides

Ksenia A. Fedorova; Grigorii S. Sokolovskii; Phillip R. Battle; Daniil A. Livshits; Edik U. Rafailov

doi:10.1109/LO.2014.6886290

73 nm wavelength tuning from a frequency-doubled quantum-dot laser in PPKTP waveguides

Ksenia A. Fedorova, Grigorii S. Sokolovskii, Phillip R. Battle, Daniil A. Livshits, Edik U. Rafailov

Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AiPT)

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Abstract

A compact all-room-temperature CW 73-nm tunable laser source in the visible spectral region (574nm-647nm) has been demonstrated by frequency-doubling of a broadly-tunable InAs/GaAs quantum dot external-cavity diode laser in periodically-poled potassium titanyl phosphate waveguides with a maximum output power in excess of 12mW and a maximum conversion efficiency exceeding 10%. Three waveguides with different cross-sectional areas (4×4μm², 3×5μm² and 2x6μm²) were investigated.

Introduction - Development of compact broadly tunable laser sources in the visible spectral region is currently very attractive area of research with applications ranging from photomedicine and biophotonics to confocal fluorescence microscopy and laser projection displays. In this respect, semiconductor lasers with their small size, high efficiency, reliability and low cost are very promising for realization of such sources by frequencydoubling of the infrared light in nonlinear crystal waveguides. Furthermore, the wide tunability offered by quantum-dot (QD) external-cavity diode lasers (ECDL), due to the temperature insensibility and broad gain bandwidth [1,2], is very promising for the development of tunable visible laser sources [3,4].
In this work we show a compact green-to-red tunable allroom-temperature CW laser source using a frequency-doubled InAs/GaAs QD-ECDL in periodically-poled potassium titanyl phosphate (PPKTP) crystal waveguides. This laser source generates frequency-doubled light over the 574nm-647nm wavelength range utilizing the significant difference in the effective refractive indices of high-order and low-order modes in multimode waveguides [3].

Experimental results - Experimental setup used in this work was similar to that described in [3] and consisted of a QD gain chip in the quasiLittrow configuration and a PPKTP waveguide. Coarse wavelength tuning of the QD-ECDL between 1140 nm and 1300 nm at 20°C was possible for pump current of 1.5 A. The laser output was coupled into the PPKTP waveguide using an AR-coated 40x aspheric lens (NA ~ 0.55).
The PPKTP frequency-doubling crystal (not AR coated) used in our work was 18 mm in length and was periodically poled for SHG (with the poling period of ~ 11.574 11m). The crystal contained 3 different waveguides with cross-sectional areas of ~ 4x4 11m², 3x5 11m² and 2x6 11m². Both the pump laser and the PPKTP crystal were operating at room temperature.
The waveguides with cross-sectional areas of 4x411m², 3x511m² and 2x611m² demonstrated the tunability in the wavelength ranges of 577nm - 647nm, 576nm -643nm and 574nm - 641nm, respectively, with a maximum output power of 12.04mW at 606 nm

Conclusion - We demonstrated a compact all-room-temperature broadlytunable laser source operating in the visible spectral region between 574nm and 647nm. This laser source is based on second harmonic generation in PPKTP waveguides with different cross-sectional areas using an InAs/GaAs QD-ECDL

References [I] E.U. Rafailov, M.A. Cataluna, and W. Sibbett, Nat. Phot. 1,395 (2007).
[2] K.A. Fedorova, M.A. Cataluna, I. Krestnikov, D. Livshits, and E.U. Rafailov, Opt. Express 18(18), 19438-19443 (2010).
[3] K.A. Fedorova, G.S. Sokolovskii, P.R. Battle, D.A. Livshits, and E.U. Rafailov, Laser Phys. Lett. 9, 790-795 (2012).
[4] K.A. Fedorova,G.S. Sokolovskii, D.T. Nikitichev, P.R. Battle, I.L. Krestnikov, D.A. Livshits, and E.U. Rafailov, Opt. Lett. 38(15), 2835-2837 (2013)

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings : 2014 international conference Laser Optics
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ (US)
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4799-3885-8
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4799-3884-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LO.2014.6886290 https://doi.org/10.1109/LO.2014.6886290
Publication status	Published - 31 Dec 2014
Event	2014 international conference Laser Optics - St. Petersburg, Russian Federation Duration: 30 Jun 2014 → 4 Jul 2014

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Conference	2014 international conference Laser Optics
Abbreviated title	LO 2014
Country/Territory	Russian Federation
City	St. Petersburg
Period	30/06/14 → 4/07/14

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Funding: EU FP7 programme through the FAST-DOT project (contract no. 224338)

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Fedorova, K. A., Sokolovskii, G. S., Battle, P. R., Livshits, D. A., & Rafailov, E. U. (2014). 73 nm wavelength tuning from a frequency-doubled quantum-dot laser in PPKTP waveguides. In Proceedings : 2014 international conference Laser Optics (2014 International Conference Laser Optics). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/LO.2014.6886290, https://doi.org/10.1109/LO.2014.6886290

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