Compact Intracavity Singly-Resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator Pumped by GaSb-Based Vertical External Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser: Concept and the Main Operational Characteristics

Author

Morozov, Yuri A. ; Morozov, Mikhail Yu ; Kozlovsky, Vladimir I. ; Okhotnikov, Oleg G.

Author_Institution

Kotelnikov Inst. of Radio Eng. & Electron. (Saratov Branch), Saratov, Russia

Volume

21

Issue

1

fYear

2015

fDate

Jan.-Feb. 2015

Firstpage

207

Lastpage

211

Abstract

The concept of an intracavity singly-resonant optical parametric oscillator pumped by a GaSb-based vertical external cavity surface-emitting laser has been proposed. The steady-state characteristics of the parametric oscillator with the joint cavity shared by the pump and signal optical fields have been numerically analyzed. Using a few millimeter long orientation-patterned quasi-phase-matched GaAs nonlinear crystal in such a cavity allows fairly compact ( ~15-mm long) device working in the mid-infrared range (wavelength of 16.5 μm) to be built.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; gallium arsenide; gallium compounds; laser cavity resonators; optical parametric oscillators; optical phase matching; optical pumping; surface emitting lasers; GaAs; GaSb; GaSb-based vertical external cavity surface-emitting laser; compact intracavity singly-resonant optical parametric oscillator; few millimeter long orientation-patterned quasiphase-matched GaAs nonlinear crystal; mid-infrared range; numerical analysis; pump fields; signal optical fields; steady-state characteristics; wavelength 16.5 mum; Cavity resonators; Crystals; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Pump lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Optical parametric oscillators; frequency conversion; nonlinear optics; semiconductor device modeling; surface-emitting lasers; surfaceemitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1077-260X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSTQE.2014.2385310

Filename

6995949