Suppression of pulse jitter in synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillators

Author

d´Alessandro, Guido ; Scroggie, A.J. ; Oppo, G.-L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math., Southampton Univ., UK

fYear

2000

fDate

10-15 Sept. 2000

Abstract

Summary form only given. The use of synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillators (SPOPOs), as sources of both tunable laser radiation and short pulses, is becoming more and more widespread. It has been found that for suitable mismatch between the pump repetition period and the resonated pulse cavity round trip time, the resonated pulse can be considerably (up to 20 times) shorter than the pump pulse. We present numerical results on the quality and stability of pulses generated in this pulse compression regime.

Keywords

cavity resonators; jitter; numerical analysis; optical parametric oscillators; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; optical resonators; synchronisation; numerical results; optical parametric oscillators; pulse compression regime; pulse jitter; pulse jitter suppression; pulse quality; pulse stability; pulses generation; pump pulse; pump repetition period; resonated pulse; resonated pulse cavity; resonated pulse cavity round trip time; short pulses; synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillators; tunable laser radiation; Jitter; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Oscillators; Pulse compression methods; Pump lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2000. Conference Digest. 2000 Conference on

Conference_Location

Nice

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6319-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2000.910244

Filename

910244