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Nanosecond optical parametric oscillator based on large-aperture periodically poled RbTiOAsO(4) 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Karlsson H Olson M Arvidsson G Laurell F Bäder U Borsutzky A Wallenstein R Wickström S Gustafsson M 《Optics letters》1999,24(5):330-332
We report on optical parametric oscillators (OPO's) based on periodically poled RbTiOAsO(4) (PP RTA), which are pumped by Q -switched solid-state lasers. With a diode-pumped Nd:YVO(4) laser (pulse energy, 800microJ ; pulse duration, 5.5 ns; repetition rate, 1 kHz) the PP RTA OPO generated 1.58-microm signal and 3.26-microm idler radiation with a signal pulse energy of 45microJ . The large aperture of 3 mmx3 mm of the PP RTA crystal also permitted OPO operation with pump pulse energies as high as 65 mJ, provided by a flash-lamp-pumped Q -switched Nd:YAG laser (pulse duration, 20 ns; repetition rate, 10 Hz). With this pump source the OPO generated signal pulse energies as high as 17 mJ, corresponding to an efficiency of 26%. The performance of this OPO shows that large-aperture PP RTA crystals are well suited for pulsed nanosecond OPO operation with pump pulse energies of tens of millijoules. 相似文献
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High-power picosecond LiB3O5 optical parametric oscillators tunable in the blue spectral range 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
The paper reports on an experimental investigation and numerical analysis of noncritically and critically phasematched LiB3O5 (LBO) optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) synchronously pumped by the third harmonic of a cw diode-pumped mode-locked Nd:YVO4 oscillator–amplifier system. The laser system generates 9.0 W of 355-nm mode-locked radiation with a pulse duration of 7.5 ps
and a repetition rate of 84 MHz. The LBO OPO, synchronously pumped by the 355-nm pulses, generates a signal wave tunable in
the blue spectral range 457–479 nm. With a power of up to 5.0 W at 462 nm and 1.7 W at 1535 nm the conversion efficiency is
74%. The OPO is characterized experimentally by measuring the output power (and its dependence on the pump power, the transmission
of the output coupler and the resonator length) and the pulse properties (such as pulse duration and spectral width). Also
the beam quality of the resonant and nonresonant waves is investigated. The measured results are compared with the predictions
of a numerical analysis for Gaussian laser and OPO beams. In addition to the blue-signal output visible-red 629-nm radiation
is generated by sum-frequency mixing of the 1.535-μm infrared idler wave with the residual 1.064-μm laser radiation. A power
of 1.25 W of 1.535-μm idler radiation and 5.7 W of 1.064-μm laser light generated a red 629-nm output power of 2.25 W.
Received: 2 February 2000 / Revised version: 28 July 2000 / Published online: 22 November 2000 相似文献
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M. Henriksson M. Tiihonen V. Pasiskevicius F. Laurell 《Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics》2007,88(1):37-41
The total pulse energy of the signal and idler in a near-degenerate type-I periodically poled KTiOPO4 (PPKTP) optical parametrical oscillator (OPO) was spectrally confined within a 2 nm spectral bandwidth at 2.13 μm. This was
achieved by using a volume Bragg grating as the output coupler. Both the signal and the idler from the PPKTP OPO were then
simultaneously used to pump a mid-infrared ZnGeP2 (ZGP) OPO. The 2 nm bandwidth was narrower than the ZGP crystal acceptance bandwidth and, thus, made efficient conversion
in the second OPO possible. A total slope efficiency of 10% from 1.06 μm to the 3.5–5 μm region was demonstrated, generating
250 μJ in the mid-IR with only 3.6 mJ of 1.06 μm pump energy. This corresponds to a Nd:YAG pump to mid-IR conversion efficiency
of 7%.
PACS 42.65.Yj; 42.72.Ai; 42.40.Eq 相似文献
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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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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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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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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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M. Peltz J. Bartschke A. Borsutzky R. Wallenstein S. Vernay T. Salva D. Rytz 《Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics》2005,80(1):55-60
We report the phase matching of parametric frequency conversion in the nonlinear material BiB3O6 (BiBO) and on an investigation of optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) of this new crystal. Based on the calculation of collinear type I and type II phase matching within the refractive-index planes, the most favorable directions for phase matching are identified for OPOs pumped by the fundamental or the harmonics of 1064-nm Nd-doped lasers. Based on these results, pulsed 532-nm-pumped ns OPOs are realized. The pump source is either a Q-switched high repetition rate (10 kHz) Nd:YVO4 laser (with a pulse energy of 24 J) or a low repetition rate (10 Hz), high pulse energy (120 mJ) Nd:YAG laser system. The BiBO OPO pumped by the Nd:YVO4 laser showed a very low threshold of 0.047 J/cm2. At an average pump power of 2.4 W the total OPO output power was 630 mW. By changing the phase-matching angle within the yz plane from 0 to 11.6° the signal wavelength was tuned from 735 nm to 970 nm, while the spectral width changed from 0.2 nm to 1.4 nm. By pumping the OPO with the Nd:YAG laser, the OPO had a threshold of 0.12 J/cm2, a steep slope (59%) and a high total efficiency (of up to 48%). Due to divergence broadening the spectral width changes from 8.5 nm at 800 nm to 70 nm near degeneracy. The properties of BiBO determined from the experimental results are compared with those of well-known nonlinear materials such as BBO, LBO and KTP. PACS 42.65.-k; 42.65.Yj; 42.70.-a; 42.70.Mp 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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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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N. Thilmann B. Jacobsson C. Canalias V. Pasiskevicius F. Laurell 《Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics》2011,105(2):239-244
An efficient nanosecond optical parametric oscillator (OPO) with output energies of 0.75 mJ using a periodically poled KTiOPO4 crystal pumped at 532 nm and generating narrowband output continuously tunable over the range of 6.8 THz, between 1053 nm
and 1075 nm, is demonstrated by employing a transversely-chirped volume Bragg grating. The tunable reflectivity spectrum of
the chirped volume Bragg grating allowed a smooth transition between singly-resonant and doubly-resonant operation of the
OPO without cavity rearrangement. This gave a unique possibility to experimentally verify theoretical predictions regarding
the efficiency of type-I and type-0 phase matched degenerate OPOs pumped by multimode Q-switched lasers. 相似文献
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High-pulse-energy high-efficiency mid-infrared generation based on KTA optical parametric oscillator
K. Zhong J. Q. Yao D. G. Xu J. L. Wang J. S. Li P. Wang 《Applied physics. B, Lasers and optics》2010,100(4):749-753
A high-energy, high-efficiency mid-infrared KTA OPO at 3.47 μm intracavity pumped by a Nd:YAG laser is presented. The maximum
output energy is 31 mJ at the repetition rate of 10 Hz with a V-shaped cavity, corresponding to the absolute optical-to-optical
conversion efficiency of 4.76% from the diode and the photon conversion efficiency of 87% from the fundamental to mid-infrared
energy. The pulse width is 5.8 ns at the maximum output energy and the peak power reaches higher than 5 MW. The line width
of the mid-infrared wave is about 1.1 nm (or 0.9 cm−1 in wave number). The output energy demonstrates good stability. To our knowledge, these are the highest pulse energy and
conversion efficiency of mid-infrared OPOs using bulk nonlinear crystals in the 3–5 μm range. 相似文献
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A method of generating 1.57 μm pulse-series eye-safe laser based on optical parametric oscillator (OPO) was developed. The
1.57 μm pulse-series OPO was pumped by a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser with a variable reflectivity unstable resonator. Every pulse-series
includes three micro-pulses, and the pulse repetition rates, pulse numbers and pulse intervals were adjustable. The maximum
output energy of the 3-micro-pulse-series was 274 mJ. The optical-optical efficiency of the OPO was about 40%. 相似文献
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Comparative investigation of long-wave infrared generation based on ZnGeP2 and CdSe optical parametric oscillators
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Long-wave infrared (IR) generation based on type-II (o→e+o) phase matching ZnGeP2 (ZGP) and CdSe optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) pumped by a 2.05 μm Tm,Ho:GdVO4 laser is reported. The comparisons of the birefringent walk-off effect and the oscillation threshold between ZGP and CdSe OPOs are performed theoretically and experimentally. For the ZGP OPO, up to 419 mW output at 8.04 μm is obtained at the 8 kHz pump pulse repetition frequency (PRF) with a slope efficiency of 7.6%. This ZGP OPO can be continuously tuned from 7.8 to 8.5 μm. For the CdSe OPO, we demonstrate a 64 mW output at 8.9 μm with a single crystal 28 mm in length. 相似文献
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S. D. Liu J. F. Yang J. L. He B. T. Zhang X. Q. Yang F. Q. Liu H. W. Yang J. L. Xu H. T. Huang 《Laser Physics》2011,21(2):327-330
This paper reported a broadband tuning intracavity optical parametric oscillator (IOPO), based on the multiple grating periodical
poled lithium niobate (PPLN) pumped by a acoustic-optical (AO) Q-switched Nd:YVO4 laser. The widely tunable OPO output signal wavelength range from 1390 to 1605 nm, which was obtained by changing PPLN poling
period from 27.8 to 31.6 μm at a certain temperature of 46°C, while the continuous tuning range was measured from 1475 to
1592 nm with the PPLN poling period of 30 μm by varying the temperature of nonlinear crystal PPLN from 50 to 120°C. The maximum
output power of 0.92 W at 1534 nm with the minimum pulse width of 5.17 ns was generated under the incident pump power of 9.6
W at 808 nm. The corresponding peak power and single pulse energy were calculated to be 5.94 kW and 30.7 μJ, respectively.
The M
2-factor was measured to be 2.01 at the signal power of 0.4 W. 相似文献
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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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Liviu Neagu Constantin Ungureanu Razvan Dabu Aurel Stratan Constantin Fenic Laurentiu Rusen 《Optics & Laser Technology》2007,39(5):973-979
We report on compact eye-safe nanosecond laser sources emitting in the 1.5 μm wavelength range based on non-critically phase-matched parametric interaction in optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) with KTP and periodically poled KTP (PPKTP) crystals, pumped by the fundamental frequency of Nd:YAG lasers. As much as 250 μJ signal pulse energy at 1.5 μm wavelength, 6.5 ns FWHM pulse-width, has been obtained in a PPKTP-OPO, extracavity pumped by a Nd:YAG microlaser oscillator–amplifier at 650 μJ pump pulse energy, 8 ns pulse-width. A single signal pulse of 2.7-mJ output energy at 1.57 μm wavelength, less than 5 ns pulse-width, was generated in a KTP-OPO, intracavity pumped by a passively Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. 相似文献
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Comparative investigation of long-wave infrared generation based on ZnGeP2 and CdSe optical parametric oscillators
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Long-wave infrared(IR) generation based on type-II(o→e+o) phase matching ZnGeP 2(ZGP) and CdSe optical parametric oscillators(OPOs) pumped by a 2.05 μm Tm,Ho:GdVO 4 laser is reported.The comparisons of the birefringent walk-off effect and the oscillation threshold between ZGP and CdSe OPOs are performed theoretically and experimentally.For the ZGP OPO,up to 419 mW output at 8.04 μm is obtained at the 8 kHz pump pulse repetition frequency(PRF) with a slope efficiency of 7.6%.This ZGP OPO can be continuously tuned from 7.8 to 8.5 μm.For the CdSe OPO,we demonstrate a 64 mW output at 8.9 μm with a single crystal 28 mm in length. 相似文献
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We present in this report an efficient KTP-based intracavity optical parametric oscillator driven by a diode-pumped Nd:GdVO4/Cr:YAG passively Q-switched laser. For the first time, a novel folded cavity configuration was employed to set the KTP and
Cr:YAG crystals separately at different fundamental beam waists. Based on the ABCD-matrix theory and by taking the thermal
lens effect into account, the laser cavity was well optimized to enhance the OPO performance. A diode pump threshold as low
as 1.2 W and a maximum signal (1.57 μm) average output power up to 560 mW have been achieved. Efficient energy transfer in
the IOPO leads to short pulse duration (1.8–2.6 ns) and high peak power (6.8 kW) output at 1.57 μm. Additionally, the correlation
dynamics between the pump laser and the OPO was analyzed in detail. 相似文献