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4 (KTA) optical parametric oscillator (OPO) synchronously pumped by a cw diode-pumped mode-locked Nd:YVO4 oscillator–amplifier system. The laser system (pumped by 84 W of cw 808-nm diode radiation) generates 7-ps-long pulses at
1.064 μm with a repetition rate of 83.4 MHz and an average power of 29 W. The OPO, synchronously pumped by the 1.064-μm laser
pulses, consists of a 15-mm-long KTA crystal (cut for type II noncritical phase-matching) in a folded signal resonant linear
resonator. The average powers of the 1.54-μm signal radiation and the 3.47-μm idler radiation are 14.6 W and 6.4 W, respectively.
The total OPO output of 21 W corresponds to an internal efficiency of 75%. The experimental investigations include measurements
of the OPO output power (and its dependence on the pump power, the transmission of the output coupler, and the resonator length)
and of the pulse properties (such as pulse duration and spectral width). The measured results are in good agreement with the
predictions of a numerical analysis based on a split-step Fourier method.
Received: 4 May 1998 相似文献
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The operation of a continuous-wave mode-locked silver gallium selenide (AgGaSe2) optical parametric oscillator (OPO) is reported. The OPO was synchronously excited by 120-fs-long pulses of 1.55-μm radiation
at a repetition rate of 82 MHz. The 1.55-μm radiation is generated by a noncritically phasematched cesium-titanyl-arsenate
(CTA)-OPO pumped by a mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser. The AgGaSe2-OPO generates signal and idler radiation in the range from 1.93 μm to 2.49 μm and from 4.1 μm to 7.9 μm, respectively. Up
to 67 mW of signal wave output power has been obtained. The experimentally determined pulse duration and chirp parameters
are in reasonable agreement with results from a numerical model taking into account group velocity mismatch, group velocity
dispersion, self phase modulation, and chirp enhancement.
Received: 6 August 1999 / Revised version: 4 October 1999 / Published online: 3 November 1999 相似文献
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Optical parametric oscillators for high pulse energy and high average power operation based on large aperture periodically poled KTP and RTA 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
M. Peltz U. Bäder A. Borsutzky R. Wallenstein J. Hellström H. Karlsson V. Pasiskevicius F. Laurell 《Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics》2001,73(7):663-670
We report on optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) based on large aperture periodically poled KTiOPO4 (PPKTP) and RbTiOAsO4 (PPRTA) pumped with high pulse energy and high average power Q-switched solid-state lasers. The OPOs were pumped with 1064-nm
pulses of a diode-pumped Nd:YVO4 laser at 20 kHz repetition rate. The emitted signal wavelengths were 1.72 μm and 1.58 μm and the idler wavelengths were 2.79 μm
and 3.26 μm, respectively. Pumping the PPKTP OPO with 7.2 W and the PPRTA OPO with 8 W average power, 2 W and 1.3 W total
OPO output powers were generated. Two-dimensional measurements of the total OPO output power, the signal wavelength and the
signal bandwidth in dependence on the crystal location indicated a good uniformity of the quasiphasematching structure over
the entire 3-mm-thick crystals. This allowed pumping with larger pump beams and therefore with pulse energies of tens of millijoules.
Pumping with different flash-lamp-pumped lasers, good OPO performance and high output pulse energies could be achieved for
all pump lasers. Maximum input pulse energies of 56 mJ gave output pulse energies of as much as 18 mJ. The temperature tuning
behaviors of both OPOs were measured, showing excellent agreement with calculated temperature tuning curves. New equations
for temperature dispersion in RTA are presented. These results show that large-aperture PPKTP and PPRTA crystals are well
suited for tunable nanosecond OPO operation with multi-watt average pump power and several tens of millijoules pump pulse
energies.
Received: 7 September 2001 / Published online: 7 November 2001 相似文献
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We report a compact and viable source of high-efficiency, high-repetition-rate, temperature-tuning, mid-IR optical parametric
oscillator (OPO) based on periodically poled MgO-doped lithium niobate (PPMgOLN) pumped by a homemade high power AOM Q-switched
Nd:YVO4 laser centered at 1.064 μm. With an optimal plane-concave resonator configuration, average output power of 5.7 W at 2.73
μm was obtained when the pump power was 25 W at the repetition rate of 80 kHz. The conversion efficiency from the 1.064 μm
laser to the 2.73 μm laser was 22.8%. Temperature tuning of the OPO yielded a signal wavelength range from 1.67 to 1.75 μm
and an idler wavelength in the range of 2.72 to 2.92 μm. 相似文献
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B. Köhler U. Bäder A. Nebel J.-P. Meyn R. Wallenstein 《Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics》2002,75(1):31-34
We report on an injection-seeded 9.5-W 82-MHz-repetition-rate picosecond optical parametric generator (OPG) based on a 55 mm
long crystal of periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) with a quasi-phase-matching (QPM) grating period of 29.75 μm. The
OPG is excited by a continuously diode pumped mode-locked picosecond Nd:YVO4 oscillator-amplifier system. The laser system generates 7 ps pulses with a repetition rate of 82.3 MHz and an average power
of 24 W. Without injection-seeding the total average output power of the OPG is 8.9 W, which corresponds to an internal conversion
efficiency of 50%. The wavelengths of the signal and idler waves were tuned in the range 1.57–1.64 μm and 3.03–3.3 μm, respectively,
by changing the crystal temperature from 150 °C to 250 °C. Injection seeding of the OPG at 1.58 μm with 4 mW of single frequency
continuous-wave radiation of a distributed-feedback (DFB) diode laser increases the OPG output to 9.5 W (53% conversion efficiency).
The injection seeding increases the pulse duration and reduces the spectral bandwidth. When pumped by 10 W of 1.06 μm laser
radiation, the duration of the signal pulses increased from 3.6 ps to 5.5 ps while the spectral bandwidth is reduced from
4.5 nm to 0.85 nm. Seeding thus improved the time-bandwidth product from 1.98 to a value of 0.56, much closer to the Fourier
limit.
Received: 29 April 2002 / Published online: 8 August 2002 相似文献
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The experimental results of a high-power tunable mid-IR laser are presented. The optical parametric oscillator (OPO) with
a 3-mm-thick PPMgCLN crystal was pumped by a 1.064 μm pulse laser. When the pump power of the 1.064 μm laser was 151 W at
10 kHz, and the operating temperature of the PPMgCLN with 5% MgO doping was 100°C, average output power of 23.7 W at 3.91
μm was obtained with a slope efficiency of 18.2% for the idler resonant OPO. The variation of the 3.91 μm output power was
about ±4% in 10 min continuous operation. The beam quality factor M
2 was less than 2.6. The average output power of 27.4 W at 3.91 μm was also obtained with 151 W pump power and the slope efficiency
of 20.9% for the signal resonant OPO by changing the coating parameters of the OPO cavity mirrors. The mid-IR wavelength tunability
of 3.7–4.0 μm can be achieved by adjusting the temperature of a 29 μm period PPMgCLN crystal from 200 to 30°C. 相似文献
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T. Andres P. Haag S. Zelt J.-P. Meyn A. Borsutzky R. Beigang R. Wallenstein 《Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics》2003,76(3):241-244
A synchronously pumped femtosecond optical parametric oscillator based on congruent MgO-doped periodically poled lithium niobate
(c-MgO:PPLN) is reported. The system, operating at room temperature, was pumped by a mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser. The wavelengths
of the signal and idler waves were tuned from 870 nm to 1.54 μm and 1.58 to 5.67 μm, respectively, by changing the pump wavelength,
the grating period or the cavity length. Pumped by 1.1 W of 755 nm laser radiation, the OPO generated 310 mW of 1080 nm radiation.
This signal output corresponds to a total conversion efficiency of 50%. Without dispersion compensation the OPO generated
phase-modulated signal pulses of 200 fs duration. Besides the OPO of c-MgO:PPLN, an OPO of stoichiometric (s) MgO:PPLN was
investigated. Because of the reduced sensitivity to photorefractive damage, both crystals allowed efficient OPO operation
at room temperature.
Received: 19 August 2002 / Revised version: 11 December 2002 / Published online: 19 March 2003
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We report a continuous-wave (CW) mid-infrared singly resonant optical parametric oscillator (SRO) based on periodically poled
MgO-doped LiNbO3 (PPMgLN) pumped by a high power, single frequency fiber laser in master oscillator-power amplifier (MOPA) configuration at
1.064 μm. Using four-mirror ring OPO cavities, at the PPMgLN’s grating period of 30.5 μm and the temperature of 23°C, we achieved
the maximum idler output power of 7.2 W at 3.4 μm when the pump power was 52.8 W. The total power-conversion efficiency from
the pump to the idler in this experiment is about 13.6%, and corresponds to ∼44% of quantum-limited performance. 相似文献
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A single resonator 8.30 μm ZnGeP2 (ZGP) optical parametric oscillators (OPO) was reported in the paper. The OPO was pumped by a 10.2-W Tm,Ho:GdVO4 laser at 8 kHz in a Q-switch mode, a 170-mW idler was obtained at 8.30 μm, and the output power of the idler and signal wave
was 1.0 W, corresponding to an optical-optical conversion efficiency of 10.3% and a slope efficiency of 20.9%. Tm,Ho:GdVO4 laser was pumped by a 30-W fiber-coupled laser diode (LD) at the center wavelength of 801 nm. The output wavelength of Tm,Ho:GdVO4 laser was at 2.05 μm, and the energy per pulse of 1.28 mJ in 18 ns was achieved at 8 kHz with the peak power of 71.1 kW. 相似文献
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We report a ZGP OPO system capable of producing >6 W at a signal wavelength of 3.80 μm and an idler wavelength of 4.45 μm.
The pumping source is the Tm,Ho:GdVO4 laser operated at 2.049 μm with an M
2 of 1.07. The ZGP OPO generated a total combined output power of 6.1 W at signal wavelength and idler wavelength under pumping
power of 18.3 W, and an M
2 of 1.7 for OPO output was obtained. 相似文献
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Low-threshold mid-infrared optical parametric oscillation in periodically poled LiNbO3 synchronously pumped by a Ti:sapphire laser 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
We report the generation of tunable high-repetition-rate optical pulses in the mid-infrared using synchronously pumped parametric
oscillation in periodically poled LiNbO3 (PPLN). Using a Kerr-lens-mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser as the pump source and a PPLN crystal incorporating grating periods
of 21.0–22.4 μm, we have achieved wavelength conversion in the -–4 6μm spectral range in the mid-infrared. The use of a semi-monolithic
cavity design and hemispherical focusing has permitted pulse generation in the strong idler absorption region of PPLN, resulting
in a simple, compact, all-solid-state configuration with a pump power threshold as low as 17 mW and mid-infrared idler powers
of up to 64 mW at 9% extraction efficiency. Signal output powers of up to 280 mW at 35% extraction efficiency are available
over the -–1.004 1.140μm spectral range at 80.5 MHz and pulse repetition rates at harmonics of the fundamental frequency up
to 322 MHz have also been obtained.
Received: 5 December 2000 / Revised version: 23 January 2001 / Published online: 27 April 2001 相似文献
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This paper presents a specially designed optical parametric oscillator (OPO) which achieved high-efficiency mid-infrared laser
of 2.83 μm. The cascaded nonlinear interactions of OPO and optical parametric amplifier (OPA) were simultaneously realized
in a single MgO:PPLN crystal. The signal oscillation of 1.70 μm was used to pump a secondary parametric process that resulted
in amplification of the idler laser of 2.83 μm. When the MgO:PPLN crystal with a grating period of 31.2 μm was pumped by a
1.064 μm laser and operated at 148°C, the quasi-phase-matching of both OPO and OPA could be simultaneously achieved. Average
output power of 7.68 W at 2.83 μm was obtained for 25 W of pump at 7 kHz. The power conversion efficiency of 2.83 μm laser
was 30.7%, which was evidently higher than common OPOs. 相似文献
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J. D. Kafka M. L. Watts J. W. Pieterse R. L. Herbst 《Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics》1995,60(5):449-452
We describe a synchronously pumped LBO parametric oscillator pumped by a cw mode-locked Ti:Sapphire laser. We demonstrate the synchronization between the pump pulses and the signal pulses by measuring a 100 fs cross correlation. We then generate pulses tunable from 2.6 to 5.3 µm by mixing the signal and idler pulses in an AgGaS2 crystal and obtain as much as 400 µW of average power. 相似文献
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We present a period-continuously-tunable optical parametric oscillator based on a fan-out MgO:PPLN with a grating period range
from 26.9 to 29.5 μm. The OPO was pumped by a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser with a repetition of 10 kHz. With a grating period of
29.3 μm and 22.0 W pump power, the idler output power at 3.78 μm arrived at 3.40 W. With a period of 27.1 μm and 13.5 W pump,
the idler output at 4.58 μm arrived at 0.36 W. This is, to our best knowledge, the highest average power for pulsed OPO operating
near 4.5 μm based on PPLN or MgO:PPLN. By translating the fan-out MgO:PPLN, the idler wavelength was tuned continuously from
3.78 to 4.62 μm. 相似文献
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2 laser to 2.38 μm has been studied experimentally by using tandem AgGaSe2 and ZnGeP2 crystals. Up to 24 mJ per pulse of 2.38-μm radiation at a 10% overall conversion efficiency has been achieved with a mode-locked
pulse format. A computer model was also developed and its predictions are in reasonable agreement with our experimental data.
Received: 6 July 1997/Revised version: 8 December 1997 相似文献
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X. -L. Dong H. -Y. Tang B. -T. Zhang H. -T. Huang J. -F. Yang S. -D. Liu 《Laser Physics》2010,20(8):1698-1702
A compact efficient diode-end-pumped acousto-optically Q-switched intracavity-frequency-tripled Nd:YVO4 355 μm ultraviolet laser was realized. Intracavity sub-resonators with anti-reflection and high-reflection coated mirrors
were used to get higher efficiency of third harmonic generation. With two LBO crystals used in frequency doubling and tripling
processes, greater than 1.46 W 355 nm average output power was obtained under the absorbed pump power of 13.9 W and the repetition
rate of 10 kHz. The corresponding pump-to-ultraviolet conversion efficiency was determined to be as high as 10.5%. At 10 kHz,
the minimize pulse width was obtained to be 12 ns with the peak power of 10.4 kW and single pulse energy of 146 μJ. 相似文献
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T. Schröder K. -J. Boller A. Fix R. Wallenstein 《Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics》1994,58(5):425-438
We report on the spectral properties and numerical modelling of a singly resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO) of Lithium-triBOrate (LBO). The OPO is pumped by the second, third or fourth harmonic of an injection-seeded,Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. The measured OPO parameters are the tuning range, the threshold, the spectral linewidth, the efficiency and the output power. For the LBO-OPO critical type-I phase-matching (xy-plane) provides a wide tuning range and optimum values of the effective nonlinear coefficient. Pumped, for example, by the 355nm third harmonic the spectral range extends from 414 nm to 2.47 µm. With a 15 mm long crystal the OPO generates a total output-pulse energy of 77 mJ with an efficiency of 45%. For 266 nm pump radiation the signal wave is in the near ultraviolet at 307–325 nm. If pumped at 532 nm the OPO generates simultaneously two pairs of signal and idler waves in the infrared (0.707–2.15 µm). The pulse-energy fluctuations of the two pairs are correlated. If, however, the OPO is injection-seeded at one of the signal waves the two wavelength pairs are anti-correlated. The observed wavelength tuning as well as the measured spectral line-widths, threshold energies and efficiencies are in agreement with the values predicted by computer simulation. 相似文献
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A high-power picosecond optical parametric oscillator (OPO) based on a 47-mm periodically poled lithium niobate crystal is described. More than 12 W of total average power-almost 8 W of signal power at 1.85 microm and more than 4 W of idler radiation at 2.5 microm -is simultaneously extracted from less than 18 W of average pump power. The OPO is synchronously pumped by 80-ps (FWHM) cw mode-locked pulses at 1.064 microm , and its output is tunable from 1.7 to 2.84microm . Nearly transform-limited signal pulses are obtained following the introduction of two intracavity etalons. 相似文献
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We present in this paper a highly stable and efficient KTP-based intracavity optical parametric oscillator with a diode-end-pumped
Nd:YVO4/Cr:YAG passively Q-switched laser. At the incident diode pump power of 4 W, the signal (1.57 μm) and idler (3.29 μm) average
output powers up to 580 and 100 mW, respectively, have been achieved. The corresponding conversion efficiency from the input
diode pump power to the output signal power is 14.5%, while that to the total OPO output (signal+idler) reaches 17%. To the
best of our knowledge, these are the highest conversion efficiencies reported to date. After more than four hours of investigation,
the OPO power stability better than 2% has been obtained. In addition, efficient cavity dumping of the IOPO has inevitably
led to the short pulse duration (1.6 ns) and high peak power output (8.3 kW) at the signal wave. Additionally, the amplitude
and repetition rate fluctuations of the signal pulses are well within 5%.
PACS 42.55.Xi; 42.60.Gd; 42.60.Lh; 42.65.Yj 相似文献
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Intracavity terahertz-wave generation in a synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillator using quasi-phase-matched GaAs 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
We generated 1 mW of average output power at 2.8 THz (bandwidth of approximately 300 GHz) in a diffraction-limited beam by placing a 6-mm-long quasi-phase-matched GaAs crystal inside the cavity of a synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillator (OPO). The OPO used type-II-phase-matched periodically poled lithium niobate as a gain medium and was pumped by a mode-locked laser at 1064 nm, with a 7 ps pulse duration, 50 MHz repetition rate, and 10 W average output power. The terahertz radiation was generated by difference frequency mixing between the signal and idler waves of the near-degenerate doubly resonant OPO. 相似文献