Conclusion
In this course we have described the current state of the art concerning three technologies being used to realize low-power coherent short wavelength sources: upconversion fiber lasers, diode lasers, and second harmonic generation. We have also gone at some length into describing three rather original applications for such sources and their technology: a fiber optic temperature sensor based on upconversion, a DNA recognition technique, and a waveguide examination technique, both of thelatter using short wavelength induced fluoresence. We hope to have shown that this is a rapidly evolving field, involving pluridisciplinary interactions, that has led to important results, and will, in the future continue to provide, as it has in the past, pleasant surprises.
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Ostrowsky, D.B. (2002). Low-Power Short Wavelength Coherent Sources: Technologies and Applications. In: Kajzar, F., Reinisch, R. (eds) Beam Shaping and Control with Nonlinear Optics. NATO Science Series: B:, vol 369. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47079-9_14
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