Single-frequency continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator system with an ultrawide tuning range of 550 to 2830 nm

Strößner, Ulrich; Meyn, Jan-Peter; Wallenstein, R.; Urenski, P.; Arie, Ady; Rosenman, G.; Mlynek, J.; Schiller, S.; Peters, A.

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“…They offer wide tuning range and high output power levels, 3,4,5 as well as narrow linewidth and the possibility of phase locking to stable optical references. 6,7 Combining them with recently developed optical frequency combs based on femtosecond lasers 8,9,10,11 opens up new perspectives in optical metrology.…”

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“…Another line of development is to use the opposite direction of stability transfer in order to provide stable emission for the purposes of high-resolution Doppler-free molecular spectroscopy in the infrared with output power levels up to several Watts using a modified design. 3,5 Specifically, this should lead to applications in precision IR spectroscopy, such as metrology of the strong transitions of cold CH 4 molecules 6 and the study of rotation-vibrational transitions in decelerated and trapped OH-radicals. 22 We are very grateful for the inestimable support by J. Mlynek and wish to thank J. Knight (University of Bath, UK) for providing the photonic crystal fiber and A. Bauch (PTB Braunschweig, Germany) for making available the Rubidium standard.…”

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Combination of a continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator and a femtosecond frequency comb for optical frequency metrology

2005

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We combine a tunable continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator and a femtosecond Ti:Sapphire laser frequency comb to provide a phase-coherent bridge between the visible and mid-infrared spectral ranges. As a first demonstration of this new technique we perform a direct frequency comparison between an iodine stabilized Nd:YAG laser at 1064 nm and an infrared methane optical frequency standard at 3.39 µm. Accepted for publication in Optics Letters c 2005 Optical Society of AmericaContinuous-wave optical parametric oscillators (cwOPOs) are one of the most promising infrared (IR) laser sources for high-resolution molecular spectroscopy.

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Combination of a continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator and a femtosecond frequency comb for optical frequency metrology

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“…Reaching other yellow wavelengths would however really only be possible using frequencydoubling of the recently introduced bismuth-doped fibre lasers [128] or using optical parametric oscillators [129], both of which have their own disadvantages.…”

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Semiconductor disk lasers for the generation of visible and ultraviolet radiation

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Guina

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Laser & Photonics Reviews

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Recent developments in semiconductor disk lasers (SDLs) generating visible or ultraviolet light are reviewed. After an introduction on potential applications, we discuss how the combination of vertical-emitting semiconductor GaAs-based structures and intra-cavity nonlinear conversion techniques can be successfully exploited to uniquely meet demands for continuous-wave radiation in the visible and ultraviolet spectral range. To do so, an overview of the device operating principles and performance is presented highlighting the underlying material considerations, semiconductor structural designs, thermal management techniques and suitable cavity configurations. This summary is completed by a presentation of new developments in the field, with a particular focus on the trends towards miniaturization.Green-pumped direct-red-emitting Semiconductor Disk Laser.

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“…Furthermore PPKTP may obtain phase matching under room temperatures, so temperature-control device is not necessary, which makes PPKTP a promising material for robust and stable OPO operation in different environments. So PPKTP were found in more reports in recent years [6][7][8][9] .…”

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Intracavity frequency doubling of PPKTP-based optical parametric oscillator

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Song

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SPIE Proceedings

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A ring-cavity synchronously-pumped optical parametric oscillator was investigated, which was pumped by a self-mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser. A periodically poled KTiOPO 4 crystal was used in the oscillator, and the parametric operation was obtained. The wavelength of the signal wave covered from 1000 nm to 1500 nm. The signal wave was successfully frequency doubled by inserting a nonlinear BBO crystal in the cavity. The wavelength of second harmonic could be tuned from 550 nm to 650 nm freely by cavity-length tuning. The loss of the cavity and the threshold of the pump power, a thin glass substrate is inserted into the cavity to couple output the light, then the output power is measured for varying pump power, based on the measurement the loss in the cavity was discussed. Furthermore, the characteristic of output pulses is also measured.Optical parametric oscillators (OPO), as efficient, tunable devices for frequency conversion, have been investigated for years. In OPO's operation, it is essential to realize phase matching in nonlinear crystals for enough parametric gain. In early years most of the nonlinear crystals were introduced for birefringence phase matching (BPM), such as BBO, KTP, LBO et al. In 1990s periodically poled technique based on quasi-phase matching (QPM) came into use, which paved the way for broadly tuned and efficient OPO operation. In many cases QPM is preferable to BPM because it allows use of largest coefficient and long nonlinear crystals; further more QPM is insensitive to polarization. Periodically poled LiNbO 3 (PPLN) [1] or periodically poled KTi:OPO 4 (PPKTP) [2] are two typical materials for QPM. PPLN has a large nonlinear coefficient (d 33 = 27 pm/V), so it has been widely used since its invention. For example, Kang-Jeon Han et al. demonstrated a room-temperature operation of the near infrared femtosecond optical parametric oscillator based on MgO-doped stoichiometric PPLN, which is synchronously pumped by Ti:sapphire laser [3] in 2008. The wavelength of the signal wave covered from 980 nm to 1500 nm. Using an output coupler with a transmission of 3.7%, the threshold of pumping power is 460 mW, and femtosecond pulses as short as 66 fs were obtained. In 2011, F. Ruebel et al. reported the generation of tunable mid-infrared picosecond laser radiation in a synchronously pumped OPO based on PPLN, and an output power of 1.1 W at 4.5 μm or more than 3 W at 3 μm were achieved for 6-ps-long pulses with a repetition rate of 160 MHz and an M 2 < 2 [4] . In 2011 Yuma Takida et al. reported THz-wave parametric oscillator synchronously pumped by mode-locked picosecond Ti:sapphire laser in doubly-resonant external cavity. Its average power was less than 1W with a noncollinear phase-matching PPLN crystal in an external enhancement cavity doubly resonant for both pump (780

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Single-frequency continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator system with an ultrawide tuning range of 550 to 2830 nm

Cited by 67 publications

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Combination of a continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator and a femtosecond frequency comb for optical frequency metrology

Combination of a continuous-wave optical parametric oscillator and a femtosecond frequency comb for optical frequency metrology

Semiconductor disk lasers for the generation of visible and ultraviolet radiation

Intracavity frequency doubling of PPKTP-based optical parametric oscillator

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