Frequency doubling of a tunable ytterbium-doped fibre laser in KTP crystals phase-matched in the XY and YZ planes

Abstract

This paper presents an experimental study of frequency doubling of a tunable ytterbium-doped fibre laser in KTP crystals phase-matched in the XY and YZ planes. In the XY plane, we obtained continuous tuning in the range 528 — 540 nm through intracavity frequency doubling. The second-harmonic power reached 450 mW for 18 W of multimode diode pump power, which was five times higher in comparison with single-pass frequency doubling. In a single-pass configuration in the YZ plane, we obtained a widetuning range (527 — 551 nm) in the green spectral region and a second-harmonic power of ∼10 mW. The tuning range was only limited by the mechanical performance of the fibre Bragg gratingand can potentially be extended to the entire lasing range of the ytterbium-doped fibre laser.