Femtosecond pulse compression by second-harmonic generation in aperiodically poled KTP

Author

Reid, D.T. ; Ioza-Alvarez, P. ; Ebrahimzadeh, M. ; Rafailov, E.U. ; Faller, P. ; Birkin, D.J. ; Sibbett, W. ; Karlsson, H. ; Laurell, F.

Author_Institution

Phys. Res. Labs., Univ. of St. Andrews, UK

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

17

Abstract

Summary form only given. In this paper we describe the use of an aperiodically poled crystal of KTiOPO/sub 4/ (KTP) to frequency double and compress the direct output from a femtosecond optical parametric oscillator (OPO) running at a wavelength of 1.25 /spl mu/m. The OPO produced dispersion-broadened 286-fs signal pulses with a bandwidth of 37 nm (six times transform limited) at an average output power of 530 mW at 1.25 /spl mu/m.

Keywords

dielectric polarisation; optical harmonic generation; optical materials; optical parametric oscillators; optical pulse compression; potassium compounds; 1.25 mum; 286 fs; 530 mW; KTiOPO/sub 4/; aperiodically poled KTP; aperiodically poled crystal; average output power; direct output; dispersion-broadened fs signal pulses; femtosecond optical parametric oscillator; femtosecond pulse compression; frequency double; optical pulse compression; second-harmonic generation; Frequency; Nonlinear optics; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Oscillators; Pulse compression methods; Pulse generation; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-339-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1998.675802

Filename

675802