Double resonant cw PPLN optical parametric oscillator pumped by injection-locked broad-area diode laser

Author

Lindsay, I.D. ; Turnbull, Graham A. ; Dunn, M.H. ; Ebrahimzadeh, M.

Author_Institution

J.F. Allen Phys. Res. Labs., St. Andrews Univ., UK

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

43

Abstract

Summary form only given. Semiconductor laser pumped optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) represent compact, tunable radiation sources with many potential applications. The results presented here represent, to our knowledge, the first reported example of a nondegenerate diode-pumped periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) optical parmetric oscillator (OPO) and the first reported PPLN OPO diode pumped in the 800-nm spectral region. The pump source used was an injection locked broad-area diode laser.

Keywords

dielectric polarisation; laser mode locking; lithium compounds; optical materials; optical parametric oscillators; optical pumping; semiconductor lasers; 800 nm; LiNbO/sub 3/; compact tunable radiation sources; doubly resonant cw PPLN optical parametric oscillator; injection locked broad-area diode laser; injection-locked broad-area diode laser; nondegenerate diode-pumped periodically poled lithium niobate optical parametric oscillator; optical pumping; pump source; semiconductor laser pumped optical parametric oscillators; Laser excitation; Lithium niobate; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Oscillators; Pump lasers; Resonance; Semiconductor diodes; Semiconductor lasers; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1998. CLEO 98. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-339-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.1998.675836

Filename

675836