CONTINUOUS FREQUENCY TUNING OF A CW OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR THROUGH TUNING OF ITS PUMP SOURCE

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作者
HENDERSON, AJ
PADGETT, MJ
ZHANG, J
SIBBETT, W
DUNN, MH
机构
[1] The J. F. Allen Physics Research Laboratories, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SS, North Haugh, St. Andrews
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10.1364/OL.20.001029
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O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We report smooth and continuous tuning of the single-frequency output from a continuous-wave, doubly resonant optical parametric oscillator (OPO) based on potassium titanyl phosphate. The device is configured as a single cavity and is pumped by the second harmonic of a diode-pumped Nd:YLF laser. By simultaneously controlling the cavity length of the OPO and the frequency of the pump laser, we could scan the output frequency of the OPO over a range of 4.5 GHz.
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