Abstract
The applications of optical parametric oscillators (OPO) in chemical processes, industrial and environmental diagnostics and optical physics were discussed. The availability of quasi-phase-matched (QPM) media and of efficient continuous wave (cw) pump lasers enabled high-performance cw OPOs to be developed as realistic spectroscopic sources. Continuous narrowband tunability, preferably on a single-longitudinal-mode (SLM) basis is a desirable performance characteristic of pulsed OPOs amenable to high-resolution spectroscopy.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 56-60 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Volume | 13 |
| No. | 5 |
| Specialist publication | Optics and Photonics News |
| Publication status | Published - 2002 |