Title :
650-nJ pulses from a cavity-dumped Yb:fiber-pumped ultrafast optical parametric oscillator
Author :
Lamour, T.P. ; Reid, D.T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh, UK
Abstract :
The authors present results from a stabilized, synchronously-pumped ultrafast optical parametric oscillator (OPO) based on the novel combination of a relay-imaged extended cavity, cavity-dumping and active cavity-length stabilization. Chirp-free pulses with energies of 650 nJ (almost twice the previous maximum) and 410-fs durations were obtained at a wavelength of 1.54 μm, and dumping frequencies from 100 kHz to 4 MHz.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; laser frequency stability; optical parametric oscillators; optical pumping; ytterbium; Yb:fiber-pumping; cavity-dumping; cavity-length stabilization; chirp-free pulses; relay-imaged extended cavity; synchronously-pumped optical parametric oscillator; time 410 fs; ultrafast optical parametric oscillator; wavelength 1.54 mum; Pulse measurements;
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.2011.5942804
