High power optical parametric oscillator source

Author

Cheung, Eric ; Palese, Stephen ; Injeyan, Hagop ; Hoefer, Carolyn ; Hilyard, Rodger ; Komine, Hiroshi ; Gish, Jackie ; Bosenberg, Walter

Author_Institution

TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

55

Abstract

A high average power, optical parametric oscillator (OPO) based system has been developed for the purpose of generating output in the 3-5 μm mid-IR band. The system uses a cw diode array-pumped, Nd:YAG master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) as the pump source and two tandem OPOs for wavelength conversion to the mid-IR. A Type II degenerate KTP OPO was used to convert the pump beam to 2.13 μm and a Type I near (ZGP) OPO was used to generate broadband radiation in the 3.7-4.1 and 4.4-4.8 μm wavelength range

Keywords

infrared sources; optical parametric oscillators; 3 to 5 micron; CW diode array pumping; KTP; KTiOPO4; Nd:YAG master oscillator power amplifier; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; ZnGeP₂; high-power mid-IR source; optical parametric oscillator; type I ZGP crystal; type II degenerate KTP crystal; wavelength conversion; Broadband amplifiers; Diodes; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pumping; Optical wavelength conversion; Oscillators; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference Proceedings, 2000 IEEE

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

ISSN

1095-323X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5846-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2000.879831

Filename

879831