DocumentCode
411621
Title
High beam quality and reduced backconversion in periodically poled lithium niobate seminoncollinear optical parametric oscillators
Author
Bartschke, J. ; Bäder, U. ; Liang, X. ; Peltz, M. ; Meyn, J.-P. ; Borsutzky, A. ; Wallenstein, R.
Author_Institution
Fachbereich Phys., Kaiserslautern Univ., Germany
fYear
2003
fDate
6-6 June 2003
Abstract
We characterize a 1064 nm pumped, 10 kHz seminoncollinear PPLN-OPO. The crystal had a parallel grating tilted by 60/spl deg/ to its x-axis. The OPO provides an efficiency of 35% and compared to a collinear PPLN-OPO an improved beamquality (M/sup 2/<1.2) due to reduced backconversion.
Keywords
lithium compounds; optical parametric oscillators; optical phase matching; optical pumping; photorefractive materials; 10 kHz; 1064 nm; 35 percent; LiNbO/sub 3/; high beam quality; parallel grating; periodically poled lithium niobate; reduced backconversion; seminoncollinear optical parametric oscillators; Gratings; Laser beams; Lithium niobate; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse generation; Optical pumping; Oscillators; Power generation; Pulse shaping methods; Pump lasers;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03. Conference on
Conference_Location
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN
1-55752-748-2
Type
conf
Filename
1297700
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