Erbium fiber laser pumped nanosecond optical parametric oscillator

Author

Britton, P.E. ; Taverner, D. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Smith, Peter G. R. ; Ross, G.W. ; Peuch, K. ; Hanna, D.C.

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Southampton Univ., UK

fYear

1998

fDate

3-8 May 1998

Firstpage

112

Lastpage

113

Abstract

Summary form only given. There is much interest in fiber lasers as compact, inexpensive, and tunable sources. Only recently have they achieved the high powers suitable for efficient nonlinear interactions. We report the combination of a high-power Q-switched Er-doped fiber laser and highly nonlinear periodically poled lithium niobate (LiNbO/sub 3/) (PPLN); which results in the first, to our knowledge, fiber pumped singly resonant optical parametric oscillator (OPO).

Keywords

dielectric polarisation; erbium; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; lithium compounds; optical materials; optical parametric oscillators; optical pumping; tuning; LiNbO/sub 3/; erbium-doped fiber laser pumped nanosecond optical parametric oscillator; fiber pumped singly resonant optical parametric oscillator; high powers; high-power Q-switched Er-doped fiber laser; highly nonlinear periodically poled lithium niobate LiNbO/sub 3/ optical parametric oscillator; nonlinear interactions; tunable sources; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser excitation; Lithium niobate; Optical pumping; Oscillators; Pump lasers; Resonance; 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.1998.675936

Filename

675936