• DocumentCode
    2251021
  • Title

    Beat-wave-seeded, pulsed optical parametric amplifier

  • Author

    Huang, Yen-Chieh ; Wang, Tsong-Dong ; Cheng, Wei-Chen

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Tsinghua Univ., Hsinchu
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    4-9 May 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We show in simulation and experiment the generation of comb-like sidebands and compressed pulses from a beat-wave-seeded optical parametric amplifier. Under suitable group-velocity mismatch, 50-fold pulse compression can be achieved for the output laser pulse.
  • Keywords
    optical parametric amplifiers; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; beat-wave-seeded OPA; comb-like sideband generation; group-velocity mismatch; laser pulse compression; pulsed optical parametric amplifier; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse compression methods; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Stimulated emission; (190.4410) Nonlinear Optics, parametric processes; (320.5550) Pulses;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-859-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    4572084