Title :
High-efficiency 5-beam pumped non-collinear parametric amplification
Author :
Tropheme, Benoit ; Boulanger, Benoit ; Mennerat, G.
Author_Institution :
CEA CESTA, Le Barp, France
Abstract :
We demonstrate here optical parametric amplification with 5 pumps from two mutually incoherent oscillators delivering 6 ns pulses at 532 nm. The signal beam at 725 nm is generated in a walk-off compensated KTP optical parametric oscillator pumped by one of these lasers.
Keywords :
optical parametric amplifiers; optical parametric oscillators; optical pumping; KTP; high-efficiency 5-beam pumped noncollinear parametric amplification; mutually incoherent oscillators; optical parametric amplification; signal beam; time 6 ns; walk-off compensated KTP optical parametric oscillator; wavelength 532 nm; wavelength 725 nm; Frequency conversion; Laser beams; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical pulses; Optical pumping;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/IQEC), 2013 Conference on and International Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0593-5
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6800865