Cavity mode effects in an injection-seeded pulsed optical parametric oscillator

J. G. Haub; G. W. Baxter; B. J. Orr

doi:10.1109/CLEOE.1996.562215

Cavity mode effects in an injection-seeded pulsed optical parametric oscillator

J. G. Haub^*, G. W. Baxter, B. J. Orr

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Faculty of Science and Engineering

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Several experiments examine how passive-cavity, injection-seeded optical parametric oscillator (OPOs) can be tuned continuously. This paper illustrates continuous tuning of an ECDL-seeded ring-cavity β-barium borate (BBO), OPO, with no mode hops (which would occur in 1.8-GHz steps) throughout a scan of 30 GHz. Also considered is a linear-cavity BBO OPO, set up to operate at signal and idler wavelengths of 532 nm and 1.06 μm with 355-nm pumping. The observed phenomena depend upon several factors: conventional 'misalignment finesse' effects in a Fabry-Perot cavity of high Fresnel number; nonlinear-optical coupling within the pumped OPO gain medium; operation of the OPO as a doubly resonant oscillator (prior to cavity detuning), with the signal wave much more strongly resonant than the idler. The implications for convenient spectroscopic control of injection-seeded OPOs are discussed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe - Technical Digest
Editors	Anon
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages	140
Number of pages	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE.1996.562215
Publication status	Published - 1996
Event	Proceedings of the 1996 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, CLEO/Europe - Hamburg, Ger Duration: 8 Sept 1996 → 13 Sept 1996

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Other	Proceedings of the 1996 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, CLEO/Europe
City	Hamburg, Ger
Period	8/09/96 → 13/09/96

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Haub, JG, Baxter, GW & Orr, BJ 1996, Cavity mode effects in an injection-seeded pulsed optical parametric oscillator. in Anon (ed.), Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe - Technical Digest., CTuO2, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, NJ, pp. 140, Proceedings of the 1996 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe, CLEO/Europe, Hamburg, Ger, 8/09/96. https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE.1996.562215

Cavity mode effects in an injection-seeded pulsed optical parametric oscillator. / Haub, J. G.; Baxter, G. W.; Orr, B. J.
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe - Technical Digest. ed. / Anon. Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1996. p. 140 CTuO2.

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