An OPO ring cavity with no coatings

Author

Sheng Wu ; Blake, Geoffrey A. ; Zhaoyang Sun ; Jiwu Ling

Author_Institution

Div. of Chem., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

2-7 June 1996

Firstpage

370

Lastpage

371

Abstract

Summary form only given. High-quality nonlinear optical crystals, such as BaB/sub 2/O/sub 4/ have very high damage thresholds (several GW/cm/sup 2/). Their cost is dropping steadily even as their quality has been improved, but the costs of optical parametric oscillator (OPO) cavities are still high. The high cost of the cavity is due in part to the expensive coatings used in the cavity mirrors, which are also vulnerable to high-energy pulses. We have designed a novel ring cavity for OPOs. This design has no coatings on any of the cavity optics.

Keywords

barium compounds; laser beam effects; laser mirrors; optical materials; optical parametric oscillators; BaB/sub 2/O/sub 4/; cavity mirrors; expensive coatings; high cost; high-energy pulses; high-quality nonlinear optical crystals; no coating OPO ring cavity design; optical parametric oscillator cavities; ring cavity; very high damage thresholds; Coatings; Costs; Crystals; Laser feedback; Laser theory; Nonlinear optics; Optical feedback; Optical pumping; Pump lasers; Ring lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1996. CLEO '96., Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-443-2

Type

conf

Filename

864801