Diode-pumped optical parametric oscillators

被引:9
作者
Boller, KJ
Scheidt, M
Beier, B
Becher, C
Klein, ME
Lee, DH
机构
[1] Universität Kaiserslautern, Fachbereich Physik, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße
来源
QUANTUM AND SEMICLASSICAL OPTICS | 1997年 / 9卷 / 02期
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10.1088/1355-5111/9/2/006
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We report on diode-laser-pumped, continuous-wave-(CW) optical parametric oscillators (OPO). The results describe the operation and characterization of doubly and triply resonant CW-OPOs (DRO, TRO) based on the non-linear materials KTiOPO4 (KTP) and RbTiOAsO4 (RTA) and different cavity designs. Stable single-frequency operation with a maximum signal output power of 84 mW was obtained with a pump- and idler-resonant two-mirror RTA-DRO, by electronically locking the OPO's pump cavity to the diode master-oscillator power-amplifier (MOPA) pump source: We present signal wave RF intensity noise spectra of an RTA-TRO, which is pumped with an amplitude-squeezed diode laser. The OPO noise spectra demonstrate, for the first time, the presence of relaxation oscillations in CW-OPOs.
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页数:17
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