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White light source based on nonlinear-optical processes

  • US 20030006382A1
  • Filed: 07/01/2002
  • Published: 01/09/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/30/1999
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A white light source, comprising:

  • a light emission device for emitting a radiation beam with at least one radiation frequency in one of a red spectral region and an infrared spectral region;

    a nonlinear-optical element disposed downstream of said light emission device and into said nonlinear-optical element the radiation beam is coupled and converted into a frequency-mixed radiation beam at least partially by generation of at least one mixed frequency by at least one of frequency mixing, frequency doubling, summation frequency formation, and difference frequency formation; and

    a conversion element disposed downstream of said nonlinear-optical element and into said conversion element the frequency-mixed radiation beam is coupled and converted at least partially into light radiation of one of longer wavelengths and shorter wavelengths in such a way that an emission spectrum of the radiation beam radiated by said conversion element has mutually complementarily colored spectral regions.

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