VISIBLE OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATION IN SYNCHRONOUSLY PUMPED BETA-BARIUM BORATE

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作者
BURDULIS, S [1 ]
GRIGONIS, R [1 ]
PISKARSKAS, A [1 ]
SINKEVICIUS, G [1 ]
SIRUTKAITIS, V [1 ]
FIX, A [1 ]
NOLTING, J [1 ]
WALLENSTEIN, R [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV HANOVER,INST QUANTENOPT,W-3000 HANOVER,GERMANY
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10.1016/0030-4018(90)90226-J
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
A visible BaB2O4 optical parametric oscillator (OPO) synchronously pumped by the 360 nm third harmonic of a pulsed passively modelocked Nd: YAG laser has been demonstrated. The wavelength of the generated 20 ps long pulses is tunable in the range of 406 nm to 3170 nm. The measured total conversion efficiency is as high as 30%; the maximum pulse peak power of the visible output exceeds 15 MW. The spectral width of the generated short pulses has been narrowed to 0.24 nm using a diffraction grating as intracavity wavelength selector. With spectral narrowing and a pump power density of 2 GW/cm2 the OPO efficiency was about 8.5%. © 1990.
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