Title :
High repetition rate periodically poled lithium niobate OPO pumped by a tunable Ti:sapphire laser
Author :
Lee, Chang Jae ; Baxter, Greg W. ; McKinnie, I.T. ; Smith, Peter G. R. ; Ross, G.W. ; Hanna, D.C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Otago Univ., Dunedin, New Zealand
Abstract :
Summary form only. We report a widely-tunable, low threshold PPLN OPO pumped by a gain-switched Ti:sapphire Laser. The pump laser is injection-seeded by an external cavity diode laser (ECDL). Injection seeding provides for efficient OPO pumping within the spectral bandwidth of PPLN, and for simple and rapid OPO wavelength selection by tuning the ECDL.
Keywords :
dielectric polarisation; lithium compounds; optical parametric oscillators; optical phase matching; optical pumping; optical tuning; spectroscopic light sources; LiNbO/sub 3/; external cavity diode laser; high repetition rate OPO; injection-seeding; periodically poled lithium niobate; pump wavelength tuning; quasi-phase-matching; rapid wavelength selection; tunable Ti:sapphire laser pumped; tunable output; Frequency; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Laser theory; Lithium niobate; Nonlinear optical devices; Physics; Pump lasers; Ring lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, 2000. Conference Digest. 2000 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nice
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6319-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2000.910305
