Harmonic repetition-rate femtosecond optical parametric oscillator

Author

Jie Jiang ; Hasama, Toshifumi

Author_Institution

Photonics Res. Inst., Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol., Ibaraki, Japan

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Firstpage

168

Abstract

Summary form only given. We report on a new way to construct an OPO with a harmonic repetition rate which is determined by the cavity length difference between the OPO and its pump laser. This method paves the way for the generation of a 10 GHz repetition-rate OPO. The use of a 1 GHz repetition-rate oscillator as a pump source may lead to a 10 GHz repetition- rate OPO by adjusting its cavity length so that the difference between the time intervals of the pulse trains of the OPO and the pump laser is 100 ps, which corresponds to a total cavity length of 270 mm or 330 mm for a ring-cavity OPO.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; optical parametric oscillators; optical resonators; 270 mm; 330 mm; Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/:Ti; KTP crystal; KTiOPO/sub 4/; OPO; Ti:sapphire laser; cavity length difference; harmonic repetition-rate femtosecond optical parametric oscillator; pulse trains; pump laser; pump source; ring-cavity OPO; time intervals; total cavity length; Autocorrelation; Birefringence; Frequency conversion; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Optical retarders; Oscillators; Power generation; Power lasers; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-706-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2002.1033573

Filename

1033573