Title
High Efficiency stable 213nm generation for LASIK application
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
Faculty
Computing, Health and Science
School
Electron Science Research Institute
RAS ID
3660
Abstract
213nm Solid-state laser technology provides an alternative method to replace toxic excimer laser in LASIK system. In this paper, we report a compact fifth harmonic generation system to generate high pulse energy 213nm laser from Q-switched Nd:YAG laser for LASIK application based on three stages harmonic generation procedures. A novel crystal housing was specifically designed to hold the three crystals with each crystal has independent, precise angular adjustment structure and automatic tuning control. The crystal temperature is well maintained at ~130°C to improve harmonic generation stability and crystal operation lifetime. An output pulse energy 35mJ is obtained at 213nm, corresponding to total conversion efficiency ~10% from 1064nm pump laser. In system verification tests, the 213nm output power drops less than 5% after 5 millions pulse shots and no significant damage appears in the crystals.
Comments
This article was originally published as: Wang, Z. , Alameh, K. , & Zheng, R. (2005). High Efficiency stable 213nm generation for LASIK application. Proceedings of Photonics Aisa 2004. (pp. 200-205). Beijing, China. SPIE Bellingham. Original article available