• 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