Intracavity and extracavity sum-frequency generation between pump and signal waves of an optical parametric oscillator

Author

Cheung, E.C. ; Koch, Karl ; Moore, Gerald T.

Author_Institution

Nonlinear Optics Center, Phillips Lab., Kirtland AFB, NM, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

25-29 Jul 1994

Firstpage

48

Lastpage

50

Abstract

In this paper, we report sum frequency generation (SFG) between the pump and the signal waves of a singly resonant AgGaS₂ optical parametric oscillator (OPO), synchronously pumped by 100-psec pulses from a conventional CW actively mode-locked Nd:YAG laser

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; neodymium; optical frequency conversion; optical parametric oscillators; optical pumping; optical resonators; silver compounds; solid lasers; ternary semiconductors; 100 ps; AgGaS₂; AgGaS₂ optical parametric oscillator; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; conventional CW actively mode-locked Nd:YAG laser; extracavity sum-frequency generation; intracavity sum-frequency generation; optical parametric oscillator; pump waves; signal waves; singly resonant; synchronously pumped; Frequency; Laser excitation; Laser mode locking; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping; Oscillators; Resonance; Signal generators; Synchronous generators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals, and Applications, 1994. NLO '94 IEEE

Conference_Location

Waikoloa, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1473-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NLO.1994.470864

Filename

470864