Mid infrared femtosecond AgGaSe/sub 2/ optical parametric oscillator

Author

Marzenell, S. ; Beigang, R. ; Wallenstein, R.

Author_Institution

Fachbereich Phys., Kaiserslautern Univ., Germany

fYear

1999

fDate

28-28 May 1999

Firstpage

35

Lastpage

36

Abstract

Summary form only given. Optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) are well suited for the generation of high power ps and fs light pulses in the near infrared region up to 4 /spl mu/m using KTP or its isomorphs. The spectral region of the mid infrared can, in principle, be covered using such nonlinear crystals as AgGaS/sub 2/, AgGaSe/sub 2/ and ZnGeP/sub 2/. This has been demonstrated with pulsed ns OPOs and mode-locked ps-OPOs. We report what is to our best knowledge the first demonstration of femtosecond continuous-wave (CW) mode-locked operation of an AgGaSe/sub 2/-OPO in the mid infrared spectral region.

Keywords

gallium compounds; optical materials; optical parametric oscillators; optical pulse generation; silver compounds; ternary semiconductors; 4 mum; AgGaS/sub 2/; AgGaSe/sub 2/; ZnGeP/sub 2/; femtosecond continuous-wave mode-locked operation; femtosecond light pulses; high power light pulses; light pulse generation; light pulses; mid infrared femtosecond optical parametric oscillator; mid infrared spectral region; mode-locked picosecond optical parametric oscillator; nonlinear crystals; optical parametric oscillator; picosecond light pulses; pulsed nanosecond optical parametric oscillator; spectral region; Infrared spectra; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping; Optimized production technology; Oscillators; Pulse measurements; Space vector pulse width modulation; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO '99. Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-595-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1999.833843

Filename

833843