FREQUENCY-CONVERTED LIGHT SOURCE

摘要

A nonlinear frequency conversion (NLFC) component is incorporated into a light source. The light source includes a light emitting element that emits a non-diffraction limited input light beam, and the NLFC component that exhibits walkoff and performs an NLFC process, such as second harmonic generation. An optical component is configured to converge the non-diffraction limited input beam into the NLFC component with a determined convergence half-angle. The convergence half-angle in air in a non-walkoff plane of the NLFC component is larger than a convergence half-angle angle for diffraction-limited light. Said convergence half-angle may be a multiple, ε×M, multiplied by the convergence half-angle value for diffraction-limited light, wherein ε has a value between a lower value equal to the larger of 0.4 and;1M;and an upper value of 5.0, where M is the square root of the beam quality factor for the non-diffraction limited light.

主权项

1. A nonlinear frequency conversion (NLFC) device comprising:
an NLFC component that exhibits walkoff; and an optical component configured to converge a non-diffraction limited input beam into the NLFC component; wherein at least a portion of an output beam outputted by the NLFC component has a different frequency from a frequency of the input beam.