• DocumentCode
    1770694
  • Title

    Doubly-resonant mid-infrared AgGaSe2 optical parametric oscillator

  • Author

    Maser, Daniel L. ; Nugent-Glandorf, Lora ; Ycas, Gabriel ; Adler, Florian ; Knabe, Kevin ; Diddams, Scott A.

  • Author_Institution
    Time & Freq. Div., Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Boulder, CO, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A doubly-resonant AgGaSe2 mid-infrared optical parametric oscillator (OPO) is synchronously pumped by a hybrid 2 μm Er:fiber/Tm:fiber femtosecond mode-locked laser. The OPO produces spectra ranging from 3-5 μm. Numerical simulations confirm the observed behavior.
  • Keywords
    erbium; fibre lasers; gallium compounds; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; optical parametric oscillators; optical pumping; silver compounds; thulium; AgGaSe2; Er:fiber-Tm:fiber femtosecond mode-locked laser; OPO; doubly-resonant mid-infrared optical parametric oscillator; synchronous pumping; wavelength 3 mum to 5 mum; Atmospheric modeling; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Oscillators; Pump lasers; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989054