Title :
High beam quality and reduced backconversion in periodically poled lithium niobate seminoncollinear optical parametric oscillators
Author :
Bartschke, J. ; Bäder, U. ; Liang, X. ; Peltz, M. ; Meyn, J.-P. ; Borsutzky, A. ; Wallenstein, R.
Author_Institution :
Fachbereich Phys., Kaiserslautern Univ., Germany
Abstract :
We characterize a 1064 nm pumped, 10 kHz seminoncollinear PPLN-OPO. The crystal had a parallel grating tilted by 60/spl deg/ to its x-axis. The OPO provides an efficiency of 35% and compared to a collinear PPLN-OPO an improved beamquality (M/sup 2/<1.2) due to reduced backconversion.
Keywords :
lithium compounds; optical parametric oscillators; optical phase matching; optical pumping; photorefractive materials; 10 kHz; 1064 nm; 35 percent; LiNbO/sub 3/; high beam quality; parallel grating; periodically poled lithium niobate; reduced backconversion; seminoncollinear optical parametric oscillators; Gratings; Laser beams; Lithium niobate; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping; Oscillators; Power generation; Pulse shaping methods; Pump lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-748-2
