Second harmonic generation in inhomogeneous MgO:LiNbO₃ waveguides

A fibre laser at 1111.6 nm is frequency doubled by two inhomogeneous MgO:LiNbO_3 waveguides and the output powers of 85 mW and 49 mW at 555.8 nm have been generated with the conversion efficiencies of 47% and 27% respectively. By analysing the second harmonic generation temperature tuning curves, we investigate the influence of the optical inhomogeneities upon the conversion efficiency. The final result shows that the efficiency difference is mainly affected by the optical inhomogeneities in our case.