Title :
Group-velocity matching through off-plane propagation in a biaxial nonlinear crystal
Author :
Petrov, V. ; Vedenyapin, V. ; Noack, E. ; Rotermund, E.
Author_Institution :
Max-Born-Inst. for Nonlinear Opt. & Ultrafast Spectrosc., Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
Summary form only given. We attempted for the first time to our knowledge to utilize off-plane propagation in an orthorhombic class nonlinear optical material. In view of the experimental results the advantages of off-plane KNbO/sub 3/ could be better utilized at lower pump intensities and larger crystal aperture with an additional tightly pumped preamplifier stage. Also applications in synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillators at low pump levels seem very promising.
Keywords :
birefringence; light propagation; nonlinear optics; optical parametric oscillators; optical pumping; potassium compounds; KNbO/sub 3/; biaxial nonlinear crystal; group-velocity matching; larger crystal aperture; low pump levels; lower pump intensities; off-plane KNbO/sub 3/; off-plane propagation; orthorhombic class nonlinear optical material; synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillators; tightly pumped preamplifier stage; Application specific processors; Frequency conversion; Nonlinear optics; Optical frequency conversion; Optical propagation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping; Polarization; Tuning; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2002. CLEO '02. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-706-7
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2002.1033920
