Tunable solid-state, high repetition rate blue laser

A tunable, solid-state blue laser which enables power-scaling for simultaneous high pulse energy and average power will be developed for nonacoustic imaging applications. A power-scalable pump laser at 1µm will be used to pump nonlinear optics processes which generate the required, tunable, narrow-band blue spectrum. The power scaling simplicity arises from straightforward MOPA architectures and avoiding any frequency conversion to the UV. Additionally, blue light generation comes from a nonlinear conversion design which avoids certain power extraction limitations from high power nonlinear parametric oscillators.