Periodically poled lithium niobate optical parametric amplifier seeded with the narrow-band filtered output of an optical parametric generator

被引：45

作者：

Powers, PE ^{[1
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Aniolek, KW

Kulp, TJ

Richman, BA

Bisson, SE

机构：

[1] Univ Dayton, Dept Phys, Dayton, OH 45469 USA

[2] Sandia Natl Labs, Combust Res Facil, Livermore, CA 94550 USA

来源：

OPTICS LETTERS | 1998年 / 23卷 / 24期

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D O I：

10.1364/OL.23.001886

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

The results of a simple scheme to generate continuously tunable pulsed narrow-bandwidth (less than 0.1 cm(-1)) light in the infrared are presented. A periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) optical parametric amplifier is seeded with the filtered output of a PPLN optical parametric generator. A high-finesse Fabry-Perot etalon is used as the filtering element, giving bandwidths as narrow as 0.08 cm(-1) and tunable over 18 cm(-1) without any adjustments to the PPLN crystals. High efficiency is obtained with a 15-ns 1-kHz Nd:YAG laser, giving energies of up to 180 mu J of signal at 1.6 mu m and 60 mu J of idler at 3.3 mu m. (C) 1998 Optical Society of America.

引用

页码：1886 / 1888

页数：3

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