Widely-tunable synchronously-pumped optical parametric oscillator

We describe a continuous-wave synchronously pumped singly resonant lithium triborate optical parametric oscillator that is tuned over the range 0.8-1.5µm. At four times threshold, the pump depletion is 75%, and the oscillator converts 27% of the pump radiation into tunable output in picosecond pulse...

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Main Authors: Butterworth, S.D (Author), McCarthy, M.J (Author), Hanna, D.C (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 1993.
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Summary:We describe a continuous-wave synchronously pumped singly resonant lithium triborate optical parametric oscillator that is tuned over the range 0.8-1.5µm. At four times threshold, the pump depletion is 75%, and the oscillator converts 27% of the pump radiation into tunable output in picosecond pulses with 78-mW average power.