Singly resonant cavity-enhanced frequency tripling

Author

Koch, Karl ; Moore, Gerald T. ; Brilliant, Nathan A.

Author_Institution

Res. Lab., Kirtland AFB, NM, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

10-14 Aug 1998

Firstpage

48

Lastpage

50

Abstract

We analyse the design and performance of a singly resonant cavity-enhanced frequency tripler. A schematic of the device is shown. The device consists of a cavity that resonates the pump laser. The cavity contains a second-harmonic generation (SHG) interaction that generates the second harmonic of the pump laser. This is followed by a sum-frequency generation (SFG) interaction that frequency sums the resonating fundamental frequency with second-harmonic frequency to produce the third-harmonic of the pump laser. The second- and third-harmonic of the pump laser are coupled out of the cavity. We model intracavity loss by a single-point attenuation

Keywords

optical design techniques; optical harmonic generation; optical losses; optical pumping; optical resonators; fundamental frequency; intracavity loss; pump laser; second-harmonic generation interaction; single-point attenuation; singly resonant cavity-enhanced frequency tripler design; singly resonant cavity-enhanced frequency tripling; sum-frequency generation; third-harmonic; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Optical coupling; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulses; Performance analysis; Pump lasers; Reflectivity; Resonance; Resonant frequency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nonlinear Optics '98: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications Topical Meeting

Conference_Location

Kauai, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4950-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NLO.1998.710172

Filename

710172