Optical parametric oscillators and nonlinear frequency conversion in the wavelength range from 190 nm to 4.5 μm

Author

Beigang, R. ; Nebel, A. ; Fallnich, C. ; Fix, A. ; Urschel, R. ; Wallenstein, R.

Author_Institution

Fachbereich Phys., Kaiserslautern Univ., Germany

fYear

1993

fDate

15-18 Nov 1993

Firstpage

787

Lastpage

788

Abstract

In this contribution we report on the design and performance of optical parametric oscillator (OPO) systems and frequency converters investigated at present in our laboratory. This includes seeded and unseeded BBO-OPOs pumped by the harmonics of injection-seeded Nd:YAG lasers. Aspects which are of special interest are design criteria, tuning range, efficiency, output power, pulse shape and the spectral properties of the generated coherent light

Keywords

barium compounds; laser beams; laser tuning; light coherence; optical frequency conversion; optical materials; optical parametric oscillators; optical pumping; 190 nm to 4.5 mum; BBO; BaB2O4; YAG:Nd; YAl5O12:Nd; design criteria; efficiency; frequency converters; generated coherent light; injection-seeded Nd:YAG laser harmonics; laser beam pumping; nonlinear frequency conversion; optical parametric oscillator; output powe; pulse shape; seeded BBO-OPOs; spectral properties; tuning range; unseeded BBO-OPOs; Frequency conversion; Laser tuning; Nonlinear optics; Optical design; Optical frequency conversion; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pumping; Oscillators; Power generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1993. LEOS '93 Conference Proceedings. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1263-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1993.379427

Filename

379427