• DocumentCode
    3191835
  • Title

    Frequency chirp in a pulsed, single-longitudinal-mode, injection-seeded optical parametric oscillator

  • Author

    White, R.T. ; He, Yuhong ; Orr, B.J. ; Kono, Mari ; Baldwin, K.G.H.

  • Author_Institution
    Centre for Lasers & Applications, Macquarie Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    22-27 June 2003
  • Firstpage
    442
  • Abstract
    Heterodyne technique is used to measure the optical phase characteristics of a ns-pulsed periodically poled KTiOPO4 (PPKTP) OPO that is injection-seeded by a cw tunable diode laser (TDL). How frequency chirp in a TDL-seeded PPKTP OPO is affected by various experimental conditions is investigated.
  • Keywords
    chirp modulation; heterodyne detection; high-speed optical techniques; laser modes; laser tuning; optical parametric oscillators; potassium compounds; semiconductor lasers; KTiOPO4; cw tunable diode laser; frequency chirp; heterodyne technique; injection-seeded optical parametric oscillator; ns-pulsed periodically poled KTiOPO4 OPO; optical phase measurement; single-longitudinal-mode optical parametric oscillator; Laser applications; Laser modes; Microchip lasers; Micromachining; Optical imaging; Optical materials; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pump lasers; Robustness;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics Conference, 2003. EQEC '03. European
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7733-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EQEC.2003.1314300
  • Filename
    1314300