Continuous-Wave Single-Longitudinal-Mode Fiber-Optical Parametric Oscillator With Reduced Pump Threshold

Author

Yang, Sigang ; Xu, Xing ; Zhou, Yue ; Cheung, Kim K Y ; Wong, Kenneth K Y

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Volume

21

Issue

24

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1870

Lastpage

1872

Abstract

A single-longitudinal-mode (SLM) fiber-optical parametric oscillator (FOPO) is proposed and demonstrated experimentally. The FOPO operates fundamentally by resonating the nondegenerate signal and idler in two separate optical cavities independently, combined with a subring cavity inserted inside the signal cavity as a mode restricting device. The proposed structure is first reported, to the best of our knowledge, which reduces the threshold pump power at a ratio of 38% compared with the usual singly resonant FOPO, and achieves an SLM oscillation with sidemode suppression ratio of greater than 51 dB.

Keywords

laser cavity resonators; optical parametric oscillators; optical pumping; oscillations; SLM oscillation; continuous wave; fiber optical parametric oscillator; nondegenerate signal; optical cavities; reduced pump threshold; sidemode suppression ratio; single longitudinal mode; Nonlinear optics; optical fiber lasers; parametric amplifiers; parametric oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2009.2035056

Filename

5313876