Title :
Beat-wave-seeded, pulsed optical parametric amplifier
Author :
Huang, Yen-Chieh ; Wang, Tsong-Dong ; Cheng, Wei-Chen
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Tsinghua Univ., Hsinchu
Abstract :
We show in simulation and experiment the generation of comb-like sidebands and compressed pulses from a beat-wave-seeded optical parametric amplifier. Under suitable group-velocity mismatch, 50-fold pulse compression can be achieved for the output laser pulse.
Keywords :
optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; beat-wave-seeded OPA; comb-like sideband generation; group-velocity mismatch; laser pulse compression; pulsed optical parametric amplifier; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Stimulated emission; (190.4410) Nonlinear Optics, parametric processes; (320.5550) Pulses;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-859-9
