Group-velocity matching through off-plane propagation in a biaxial nonlinear crystal

Author

Petrov, V. ; Vedenyapin, V. ; Noack, E. ; Rotermund, E.

Author_Institution

Max-Born-Inst. for Nonlinear Opt. & Ultrafast Spectrosc., Berlin, Germany

fYear

2002

fDate

24-24 May 2002

Firstpage

259

Abstract

Summary form only given. We attempted for the first time to our knowledge to utilize off-plane propagation in an orthorhombic class nonlinear optical material. In view of the experimental results the advantages of off-plane KNbO/sub 3/ could be better utilized at lower pump intensities and larger crystal aperture with an additional tightly pumped preamplifier stage. Also applications in synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillators at low pump levels seem very promising.

Keywords

birefringence; light propagation; nonlinear optics; optical parametric oscillators; optical pumping; potassium compounds; KNbO/sub 3/; biaxial nonlinear crystal; group-velocity matching; larger crystal aperture; low pump levels; lower pump intensities; off-plane KNbO/sub 3/; off-plane propagation; orthorhombic class nonlinear optical material; synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillators; tightly pumped preamplifier stage; Application specific processors; Frequency conversion; Nonlinear optics; Optical frequency conversion; Optical propagation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping; Polarization; Tuning; 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.2002.1033920

Filename

1033920