• DocumentCode
    733902
  • Title

    Fast tunable picosecond optical parametric oscillator based on chirped quasi-phase matching

  • Author

    Descloux, D. ; Dherbecourt, J.-B. ; Melkonian, J.-M. ; Raybaut, M. ; Drag, C. ; Godard, A.

  • Author_Institution
    ONERA-The French Aerosp. Lab., Palaiseau, France
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We report on a picosecond OPO combining an aperiodically poled nonlinear crystal and a rapidly tunable intracavity spectral filter. Fast tuning over 80 nm around 3.84 μm is carried out in less than few milliseconds.
  • Keywords
    chirp modulation; high-speed optical techniques; optical filters; optical materials; optical parametric oscillators; optical phase matching; optical tuning; aperiodically poled nonlinear crystal; chirped quasiphase matching; fast tunable picosecond optical parametric oscillator; rapidly tunable intracavity spectral filter; wavelength 3.84 mum; wavelength 80 nm; Bandwidth; Mirrors; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical filters; Optical pumping; Tuning;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7184345