A numerical study incorporating walkoff, depletion and diffraction for a nanosecond optical parametric oscillator

Author

Sung-Woo Lee ; Do-Kyeong Ko ; Byung Heon Cha ; Jengmin Lee

Author_Institution

Lab. for Quantum Opt., Korea Atomic Energy Res. Inst., Taejon, South Korea

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

Aug. 30 1999-Sept. 3 1999

Firstpage

843

Abstract

Nanosecond optical parametric oscillators (OPO) are widely used as wavelength tunable radiation sources. Despite their practical use, few theoretical investigations for OPOs in nanosecond regime have been reported. Our numerical model which include depletion, walkoff, and diffraction employs the Runge-Kutta method with Fourier-space transform which has been proved to give the best accuracy in simulating second-order nonlinear interactions in birefringence media.

Keywords

Runge-Kutta methods; light diffraction; optical parametric oscillators; optical tuning; partial differential equations; Fourier-space transform; Runge-Kutta method; birefringence media; coupled differential equations; depletion; diffraction; nanosecond optical parametric oscillator; numerical model; second-order nonlinear interactions; temporal profiles; walkoff; wavelength tunable radiation sources; Atom optics; Electromagnetic analysis; Mirrors; Nonlinear optics; Numerical models; Optical diffraction; Optical pumping; Optimized production technology; Reflectivity; Signal generators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO/Pacific Rim '99. The Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul, South Korea

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5661-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.1999.817862

Filename

817862