Title :
High energy, sub-nanosecond, 0.5-kHz, mid-IR OPO based on PPSLT pumped at 1064 nm
Author :
Gaydardzhiev, Alexander ; Chuchumishev, Danail ; Buchvarov, Ivan ; Shumov, Dimitar ; Samuelson, Stuart
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Sofia Univ., Sofia, Bulgaria
Abstract :
Here we present a short cavity PPSLT singly resonant OPO with double pass pumping, emitting in the mid-IR with high conversion efficiency, high average power at kilohertz repetition rate with considerable potential for energy scaling. We employ a 11 mm long, 10 mm wide, and 2 mm (along z axis) thick PPSLT crystal (manufactured by Deltronic Crystal Industries Inc., NJ) with three polled zones with different domain inversion periods (30.2, 30.3 and 30.4 μm), equally spaced along the width of the crystal.
Keywords :
lithium compounds; optical parametric oscillators; optical pumping; LiTaO3; domain inversion periods; double pass pumping; energy scaling; kilohertz repetition rate; periodically poled stoichiometric LiTaO3; singly resonant OPO; size 10 mm; size 11 mm; size 2 mm; subnanosecond mid-IR optical parametric oscillators; Heating;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0533-5
Electronic_ISBN :
Pending
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942755
