Development of a broadly-tunable continuous-wave, mode-hop-tuned, PPLN OPO for chemical sensing application

Author

Bisson, S.E. ; Richman, B. ; Kulp, T.J. ; Hartings, R.

Author_Institution

Sandia Nat. Labs., Livermore, CA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

28-28 May 1999

Firstpage

9

Abstract

Summary form only given. The use of periodically-poled lithium niobate (PPLN) in spectroscopy and chemical sensing offers many potential advantages over traditional laser based systems. Many chemical sensing applications require broad tunability, high power and single-longitudinal-mode (SLM) operation. While PPLN based sources offer many of these attributes there are currently few in use. We have developed a broadly tunable, SLM optical parametric oscillator (OPO) based on PPLN for use in a photoacoustic spectrometer. The development of a broadly tunable cw OPO is a difficult task and there are many subtleties and differences from more traditional tunable laser sources.

Keywords

chemical sensors; dielectric polarisation; light sources; lithium compounds; optical materials; optical parametric oscillators; optical sensors; optical tuning; LiNbO/sub 3/; broad tunability; broadly tunable cw OPO; broadly-tunable continuous-wave mode-hop-tuned optical parametric oscillator; chemical sensing application; high power; lithium niobate; optical parametric oscillator; periodically-poled; photoacoustic spectrometer; single-longitudinal-mode operation; Chemical lasers; Frequency; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Laser tuning; Nonlinear optics; Optical feedback; Optical pumping; Ring lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;

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.1999.833803

Filename

833803