Tunable violet radiation in a quasi-phase-matched periodically poled stoichiometric lithium tantalate waveguide by direct femtosecond laser writing

[EN]We report on violet-light generation using the femtosecond-laser written waveguides in periodically poled MgO:LiTaO3 crystal under conditions of third-order quasi-phase matching. Ten parallel depressed cladding waveguides are successfully fabricated with different grating periods in the same sam...

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Autores: Li, Lingqi, Zhang, Bin, Romero Vázquez, Carolina, Vázquez de Aldana, Javier R., Wang, Lei, Chen, Feng
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
OAI Identifier:oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/146882
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10366/146882
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Violet light
Waveguide
Femtosecond laser writing
Quasi phase matching
Periodically poled stoichiometric lithium tantalate
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Sumario:[EN]We report on violet-light generation using the femtosecond-laser written waveguides in periodically poled MgO:LiTaO3 crystal under conditions of third-order quasi-phase matching. Ten parallel depressed cladding waveguides are successfully fabricated with different grating periods in the same sample with fan-out χ(2) grating structures. These waveguides exhibit high optical quality with minimum insertion loss as low as 0.71 dB. Temperature and wavelength tuned second harmonic generation for different waveguides are demonstrated by using a tunable CW Ti sappire laser. Tunable violet second harmonic light has been generated with a single period over the range of 396 nm to 401 nm by varying the crystal temperature from 60 °C to 200 °C. At the quasi-phase matching temperature, 0.37 mW of violet light power at 397.2 nm is generated for a fundamental power of 336.7 mW, corresponding to a normalized conversion efficiency of 0.39%/(W·cm2). Our work contributes to designing tunable and efficient on-chip violet light sources based on femtosecond-laser written waveguides.