Advances in Ultrafast and Continuous-Wave Optical Parametric Oscillators

Author

Ebrahim-Zadeh, M.

Author_Institution

Inst. de Cienc. Fotoniques, Barcelona

fYear

2008

fDate

8-11 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Effective strategies for the generation of widely tunable coherent radiation in the visible and ultraviolet using synchronously-pumped and continuous-wave (CW) optical parametric oscillators are described. Spectral regions from 250 to 710 nm are accessed and output powers of hundreds of milliwatts with him spectral, temporal and spatial beam quality are obtained in ultrafast femtosecond and CW operation.

Keywords

bismuth compounds; laser beams; laser mode locking; laser tuning; optical Kerr effect; optical harmonic generation; optical materials; optical parametric oscillators; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; Al₂O₃:Ti; BiB₃O₆; Kerr-lens-mode locked laser; birefringent nonlinear crystal; continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator; spatial beam quality; spectral beam quality; synchronously-pumped optical oscillator; temporal beam quality; ultrafast femtosecond CW operation; ultraviolet spectral region; visible spectral region; wavelength 250 nm to 710 nm; widely tunable coherent radiation generation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency conversion; Nonlinear optics; Optical harmonic generation; Optical materials; Optical pumping; Oscillators; Pump lasers; Solid lasers; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

PhotonicsGlobal@Singapore, 2008. IPGC 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3901-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2906-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPGC.2008.4781501

Filename

4781501