Microsecond pulsed optical parametric oscillator pumped by a Q-switched fiber laser

Klein, M.E. and Adel, P. and Auerbach, M. and Fallnich, C. and Gross, P. and Boller, K.-J. (2003) Microsecond pulsed optical parametric oscillator pumped by a Q-switched fiber laser. Optics Letters, 28 (22). pp. 2222-2224. ISSN 0146-9592

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Abstract:	We report on what is to our knowledge the first optical parametric oscillator (OPO) pumped by microsecond pulses from a wavelength-tunable solid-state laser. The singly resonant OPO (SRO) is based on a periodically poled LiNbO3 crystal and pumped with 2.1-ms-long pulses from an actively Q-switched Yb fiber laser. At an average fiber laser power of 3.6 W, the SRO generates 1.9-ms-long pulses with a repetition rate of 25 kHz and an average power of 560 mW at 3360 nm. The SRO was tuned from 1518 to 1634 nm (signal) and from 3145 to 3689 nm (idler) via the crystal temperature and poling period. By all-electronic tuning of the fiber laser wavelength over 19 nm, tuning of the mid-infrared idler wavelength over 195 nm was achieved.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2003 Optical Society of America
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Laser Physics and Nonlinear Optics (LPNO)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/71721
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.28.002222
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