Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The need for compact blue-green lasers; 2 Fundamentals of nonlinear frequency upconversion; 3 Single-pass SHG and SFG; 4 Resonator-enhanced SHG and SFG; 5 Intracavity SHG and SFG; 6 Guided-wave SHG; 7 Essentials of upconversion laser physics; 8 Upconversion lasers; 9 Introduction to blue-green semiconductor lasers; 10 Device design, performance, and physics of optical gain of the InGaN QW violet diode lasers; 11 Prospects and properties for vertical-cavity blue light emitters; 12 Concluding remarks; Index.