Diode question

[MechEng3]

If electromagnetic radiation is a self-propagating transverse oscillating wave of electric and magnetic fields.... is a said laser diode having a TE polarized emission is then subjected to a polarized filter...between the diode and SHG material..at the worst possible , being 90 deg off axis to desired....would it possibly be limiting the correct amount of TE fundamental power to be impaled upon a surface? Therefore limiting the total wavelength on the diode emission to be consumed as electric and magnetic fields as equal amounts in the SHG process? Or is there a wavelength dependant on , lets say a Yag crystal, to the amount of either or a component of either fields being present? Or would the quantum aspects of SHG be the resultant of the polarized output of the diode? If there exists a superposition of stationary charged photons.....would this not create emission?

[trwalters001]

Ya know... I was just wondering that the other day...

[soforene]

He lost me at "If" ...................

[mixedgas]

YES

mixedgas

[keeperx]

makes sense..

a field coupled to a state, coupled to the ground state.

[allthatwhichis]

He lost me at "If" ...................

At least I got as far as someone else... Wait, which "if"?

[soforene]

That'd be the first one.

[heroic]

makes sense..

a field coupled to a state, coupled to the ground state.

It'd be like melting a sheet of Polaroid.

[keeperx]

It'd be like melting a sheet of Polaroid.

it'd be more like lasing a stick of dynamite

and i understood the following

If electromagnetic radiation is a wave of electric and magnetic fields.... being 90 deg off axis ...would this not create emission?

so my answer would be.. only slightly, only slightly.

[mixedgas]

depends on the receiving crystal, and intracavity polarizers, or more likely wave plates, are usually quartz.

Steve