DocumentCode
520653
Title
A picosecond optical parametric oscillator synchronously pumped by an amplified gain-switched laser diode
Author
Kienle, Florian ; Chen, Kang K. ; Alam, Shaif-ul ; Gawith, Corin B.E. ; Mackenzie, Jacob I. ; Hanna, David C. ; Richardson, David J. ; Shepherd, David P.
Author_Institution
Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
fYear
2010
fDate
16-21 May 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We demonstrate a picosecond optical parametric oscillator synchronously pumped by a fiber-amplified gain-switched laser diode. Up to 7.3W at 1.54µm and 3.1W at 3.4µm is obtained at pulse repetition rates between 114.8 and 918.4MHz.
Keywords
Diode lasers; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Oscillators; Pulse amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Ultrafast optics;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-55752-890-2
Type
conf
Filename
5500242
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