Widely tunable high power OPO based on a periodically poled MgO doped lithium niobate crystal |
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Authors: | Bo Wu Yonghang Shen Shuangshuang Cai |
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Institution: | aState Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrument and Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;bState Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrument and Department of Optical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China |
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Abstract: | An optical parametric oscillator (OPO) based on a highly MgO doped periodically poled lithium niobate (PPMgLN) crystal was experimentally demonstrated and the result is presented in this report. The PPMgLN wafer was fabricated from a MgO doped (with 6 mol% doping concentration) lithium niobate crystal by means of high voltage pulse trigged domain reversal technique and has 20 domain reversal periods from 27.8 to with a step of between the neighbor periods. An acousto-optic (AO) Q-switched Nd3+:YVO4 laser was used as the pumping laser. A maximum laser output power of 4.8 W has been achieved for the OPO when the pumping power is 10.8 W and it corresponds to an optic-optic conversion efficiency of 44%. By shifting the PPMgLN wafer, the periods of the domain structure on the PPMgLN wafer can be changed, thus enabling a wide spectral tuning range of the laser output from 1.42 to (for the signal light) and from 2.76 to (for the idler light). |
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Keywords: | Optical parametric oscillator PPMgLN Highly MgO doped LiNbO3 |
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